EP 4: Occidental and Oriental Ideas
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Impersonality of the Universe
In the old traditions, and this was true in China as well, and in Japan, the families did it all. No woman will sacrifice her womanhood simply because of the failure of a man. This impersonality is the impersonality of the universe,. And it's a great, majestic, horrendous thing. One does not want individuals. What one needs are machines. I'm pretty good rather extremely, but the individual is not this unique thing. The wonderful thing that one gets in the old japindha addressed to the wonderful youths who won the events in the Olympic Games: "This moment of this youth's victory is a glory"
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