"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
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"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.“
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"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
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"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."
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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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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
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