Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? Joseph Campbell Read Quote
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. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
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. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
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. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. Joseph Campbell Read Quote
