5) "Like ThisIf anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say,Like this.When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say,Like this.If anyone wants to know what ""spirit"" is,or what ""God’s fragrance"" means,lean your head toward him or her.Keep your face there close.Like this.When someone quotes the old poetic imageabout clouds gradually uncovering the moon,slowly loosen knot by knot the stringsof your robe.Like this.If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,don’t try to explain the miracle.Kiss me on the lips.Like this. Like this.When someone asks what it meansto ""die for love,"" pointhere.If someone asks how tall I am, frownand measure with your fingers the spacebetween the creases on your forehead.This tall.The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.When someone doesn’t believe that,walk back into my house.Like this.When lovers moan,they’re telling our story.Like this.I am a sky where spirits live.Stare into this deepening blue,while the breeze says a secret.Like this.When someone asks what there is to do,light the candle in his hand.Like this.How did
Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?Huuuuu.How did Jacob’s sight return?Huuuu.A little wind cleans the eyes.Like this.When Shams comes back from Tabriz,he’ll put just his head around the edgeof the door to surprise us Like this.",Jalaluddin Rumi
6) "I only have so much willpower, Helen,"" he whispered. ""And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.","
Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed"
7) LOVE is a friendship set to music,E.
Joseph Cossman
8) Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.,
Joseph Campbell
9) "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.",
Joseph Campbell
10) "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.","
Joseph Campbell, A
Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living"
11) Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.,"
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness"
12) "Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse",
Joseph Brodsky
13) "You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.","
Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey:
Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work"
14) "I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.",
Joseph Heller
15) "The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.",
Joseph Campbell
16) Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like
Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.,"John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God"
17) "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.","
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth"
18) "The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.","
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth"
19) "Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.",
Joseph Conrad
20) "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.",
Joseph Campbell
21) "People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. 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 resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.","Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth"