The Right Questions

Quote Collection: Joseph Campbell

“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.”

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

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

Sonnet XXV

Sonnet XXV By Pablo Neruda

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, which waited.

I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.

Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all

Belonged to someone else - to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

Love?

In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasing important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, “What happened to love?” Desmond Morris