Quote of the Day

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, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes to you.  This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.  This is the place of creative incubation.  At first you may find that nothing happens there.  But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

-- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Quote of the Day

In marriage, every day you love, and every day you forgive.  It is an ongoing sacrament -- love and forgiveness...  Like the yin/yang symbol...Here I am, and here she is, and here we are.  Now when I have to make a sacrifice, I'm not sacrificing to her, I'm sacrificing to the relationship ... That's what a marriage is -- whereas, in a love affair, you have two lives in a more or less successful relationship to each other for a certain length of time, as long as it seems agreeable.

-- Joseph Campbell

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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't that.  That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off.  But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life.  If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married...

-- Joseph Campbell

Quote of the Day

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

-- Joseph Campbell