“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
“Lack of rationality is a vice where thinking and feeling are called for—rationality is a vice where sensation and intuition should be trusted.”
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“I have found that if I pray for God to move a mountain, I must be prepared to wake up next to a shovel.”
― Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness in a Broken World
― Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness in a Broken World
“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”
― The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
― The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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