When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Quote by Joseph Campbell

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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to...

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to...

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as...

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as...

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to...

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to...

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's...

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's...

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the...

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the...

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced...

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced...

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned,...

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned,...

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is...

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than...

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The...

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The...

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The warrior's approach is to say yes to life: yea to it all.

The warrior's approach is to say yes to life: yea to it all.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is...

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is...

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life....

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life....

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame...

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame...

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they...

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they...

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the...

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the...