No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.
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In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Marriage involves compromise not just for the partner, but for the strength of the relationship itself.
Joseph Campbell emphasizes that in a marriage, the sacrifices made are not merely for the individual partner, but rather for the enhancement and preservation of the relationship as a whole. This perspective highlights that a successful marriage is built on mutual commitment and shared growth, rather than individual loss.
Themes
MarriageRelationshipSacrificeCommitmentLove
In practice
Example use cases
In a wedding speech, you might say, 'As Joseph Campbell wisely pointed out, in marriage we’re not just giving ourselves to our partner, but to the relationship we build together.'
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All quotes →Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
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Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
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