The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. - Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Jung speaks of two orders of dream, the personal dream and the archetypal dream, or the dream of mythic dimension.

If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it’s true. Myth is the penultimate truth.