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 public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are...

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows,...

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows,...

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...

The greatest service that could be rendered the Christian peoples would be to convert them...

The greatest service that could be rendered the Christian peoples would be to convert them...

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no...

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no...

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....

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

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...

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is...

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is...

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...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons...

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons...

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his...

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his...

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the...

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the...