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

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,...

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths

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After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a...

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly...

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

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

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

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

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

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to...

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to...