Joseph Campbell

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance's within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

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

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, (just) for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!"

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

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Follow your bliss.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.