Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

[Space dedicated to creativity is the goal of artists of all kinds. Virginia Woolf lauded the] room of one's own ... You must have a room or a certain hour or so a day where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning. . . This is the place of creative incubation . . . If you have a sacred place and use it something eventually will happen.

At such moments you realize that you and the other are in fact one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before there

Find a place inside where there's joy and the joy will burn out the pain.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

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.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy

[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree each of its needles the movement of wind all that I perceive and even more that I don't all resonate with a vital hum. It is the hum of the universe what the Chinese call the ten thousand things all of them speaking out saying precisely nothing. Each is its own center the exact place where the world begins.] The center is where you are standing ... and the other center is where I am standing.

Given that we are still in early 2006 the 2007 guidance is likely to be conservative with higher-than-2006 airplane deliveries better margins at both [Boeing Commercial Airplanes] and [Integrated Defense Systems] strong cash flow but low single-digit top line growth for its defense business.

Airbus really escaped unscathed in this cycle ... Boeing has a monopoly with the big planes in Asia. (It) has really made a living out there, the Asian flu affects Boeing more than Airbus.

We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

It was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense

However if we are wrong and there is a strike we would expect BA shares to trade down by $2 to $4 per share and we would consider that a buying opportunity.

I had my heart set on three things: One the choral office, two the habit, and community life. We spend a lot of time together. We work together eat together pray together

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion

As a white candle In a holy place So is the beauty Of an aged face

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you

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.

Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that every now and then and to realize "Oh...... ah.....

When you see the Earth from space you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come, this is the country we will celebrate and these are the people we are one with.

The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Smiths' share price targets range from down 4 percent to 20 gain highlighting a debate about what Smiths should be worth.

The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ or the miracles don't make sense.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy

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.

My sense is that the [European Commission]'s grievances or the things that they would like fixed are the kinds of things that Boeing may be able to find a way around as long as the [EC] doesn't get too unreasonable.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

When we talk about settling the world's problems we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

I've heard youngsters use some of George Lucas' terms -- "the Force" and "the dark side." So it must be hitting somewhere. It's a good sound teaching I would say.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.

You don't understand death you learn to acquiesce in death.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I don't have to have faith I have experience.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble there lies your treasure.

God is Within You! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about you will be able to live with it and affirm it perhaps even enjoy it as your life.

Myths are public dreams dreams are private myths.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Our demons are out own limitations which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

We just don't know very much about Jesus. All we know are four contradictory texts that purport to tell us what he said and did.

If you assume these 17 000 guys go away and never come back it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.