"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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"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
-Joseph Campbell
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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."
-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."
-Joseph Campbell
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"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
-Joseph Campbell
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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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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
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