Joseph Campbell Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: March 26, 1904 - October 30, 1987
Birthday: March 26
Death: October 30
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.
source: Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com
topic: Spiritual, Live Life, Heart, Virgin Birth, Roots And Branches
