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A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
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A Myth Is More Powerful - And

Gloria Naylor
A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.
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The heart of christianity is a myth which is also a fact. the old myth of the dying god, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. it happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. we pass from a balder or an osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical person crucified (it is all in order) under pontius pilate. by becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.
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While i generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. but as a psychiatrist i weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.
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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... everything we dream about, and by that i mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of icarus came before aviation, and if ader or bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). there is nothing truer than myth... reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. but it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. and it has done more, i suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. a myth is the idealization of a fact. a miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. there is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. miracles belong to the far past and the far future. the little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.
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