“Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.”
Source: The Power of Myth
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes
"Advice to the Disciple and Aspirant" p. 527
The Quatrains of Rumi (2008)
Original: (it) Quello che vuoi si ottiene decidendo che puoi ottenerlo: dove concentri la tua attenzione, fluisce l'attrazione.
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From interview with David Light
"The Hue and Cry," The Writing on the Wall (1970)
Context: Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils (“a person of inhuman and horrible cruelty or wickedness,” OED, Sense 4). Such an unnatural being is more horrible to contemplate than an Eichmann — that is, aesthetically worse — but morally an Ilse Koch was surely less culpable than Eichmann since she seems to have had no trace of human feeling and therefore was impassable to conscience.
