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FINDING JOE
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The Power of Unconditional Love
Everyone is born with an open heart, but we quickly learn to put conditions on our happiness—comparing ourselves to others, casting judgement, doubting ourselves, allowing fear or entitlement or self-righteousness to take hold—and slowly our hearts begin to close. We isolate ourselves, feeling alone, disconnected, and unheard; and in doing so we immobilize our spirit, stifle our authentic expression, and cut off our joy.
"Life blossoms when we have the courage to not only accept but also learn from our mistakes and sorrows."
"Life blossoms when we have the courage to not only accept but also learn from our mistakes and sorrows."
Excerpt from Unbinding The Heart by Agapi Stassinopoulos
"Every single person has a story that holds the truth of their heart, and those stories need to be heard. We need to tell our stories as much as we need to listen to others. And that is how our hearts unbind - with the simple message You matter. My heart hears yours. How would your life be if you lived with a heart fully open and free and you knew that your story mattered?"
Excerpt from Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio
"My life as a busy New Yorker abruptly changed when I unexpectedly heard the mystical, elderly voice of Addie Mae Aubrey, a Southern, African American woman. Her first words, "It's not what happened to me that matters," began a spirited remembering of her teenage years in the late 1930s rural south and the hard learned wisdom Addie Mae asked me to share. As women from different times and different places, together we embarked on an uncommon journey that changed everything we would both become."
Two different stories from two different women, yet delivering the same underlying message...You matter. Unbinding the Heart and Trusting the Currents reveal wise words about relationships, mothers and daughters, life and love and having an unshakable trust in the life you are living...and doing it all with a wide open heart.
"No matter how dark or evil something seems, light and kindness and beauty can rise from it." - Lynnda Pollio
Finding Joe is a movie about the inevitable and often unexpected crossroads at which we often find ourselves in life -- the metaphorical fork in the road that forces a choice. It challenges us to leave what is familiar and journey into the unknown, to quest for something more. On this journey we generally have to face and overcome obstacles that forge personal transformation which ultimately brings us home to ourselves, but in a more highly realized fashion.
It’s a movie that both details the life’s work of Joseph Campbell, and inspires the audience to take a leap of faith—to endeavor to live an epic life. Finding Joe also reveals how transcendent myths brim with various metaphors related to challenge and breakthrough, like the of slaying dragons, killing wicked witches, finding treasures and meeting wise teachers. Each hero’s journey illustrates a quest that leads to the holy grail of self-discovery.
The movie also makes plain that one can never “win the ring” without one’s own effort -- no hero receives “the boon,” or gift of transcendence without having won it for oneself by overcoming inertial forces, especially fear.
Campbell was a highly esteemed mythologist. He studied the whole corpus of world mythology—all cultures, ancient to modern. His research and creative insight led him to discover a pattern out of which all myths related to human evolution are constructed. That pattern he called “the hero’s journey.”
Join us as Finding Joe takes us on the ultimate hero’s journey: the journey of self discovery. It’s truly an inspirational and life enriching film -- running time 80minutes.