Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be—if we are to experience long survival—a continuous “recurrence of birth” (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting...
A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That’s why it’s a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you’re giving, you’re not giving to...
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact. from An Open Life
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. from A Joseph Campbell Companion