I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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Joseph Campbell
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About Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joseph CampbellParticipate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Love is a friendship set to music.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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Love is a friendship set to music.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.