Marriage

My parents at the Cleveland Indians' game :)

"Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isnt that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married."
Joseph Campbell

Letting Go

On Being Alive

These pictures were taken at the Olentangy Caverns.
I hope you enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele

"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 within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-Joseph Campbell

Bliss

Hello!!! Well, we still don't have water....but we never moved in with my parents...we wash our dishes down there and the kids shower.......Mark and I go to the rec center to shower.
I was thinking that I feel homeless last night as I walked up to the rec center to wash my face and brush my teeth...........you gotta laugh.....just absurd.
anyway...I hope you like the trailer below......
I am taking Mira to see it at the Cleveland Film Festival.
It is called "An Alternative to slitting your wrist."
have a good day...click on the trailer...and hope you enjoy the quote too!!!
video trailer


Namaste,
Michele

"Follow your Bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before." —Joseph Campbell

The long and winding road

do you like this poem??????

The Path

You enter the forest
at 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 realize
your potential.

It takes courage
to do what you want.
Other people
have a lot of plans for you.

Nobody wants you to do
what you want to do.
They want you to go on their trip...

- Joseph Campbell

The Path

Me at age 3 in 1968
"I like your sleeves...they are real big."-Napolean

THE PATH
You enter the forest
at 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 realize
your potential.

It takes courage
to do what you want.
Other people
have a lot of plans for you.

Nobody wants you to do
what you want to do.
They want you to go on their trip...

- Joseph Campbell

On Being Alive

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

Hidden treasure?

Macy took this picture last weekend at Old Man's Cave. Isn't it cool??

It is Mark walking through a tunnel.....Hope you are having a great day!!

Love, Michele

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

-JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Grateful dead show

...it seemed to me we had the kind of awakening that the great religions first intended, and that somehow it involved everybody. There were kids there. There were old people there, and in other parts of the building there were people just dancing and dancing... we had a chance to awaken our hearts, unbound by any particular cultural or religious commitments to this group or that. It seemed to me, and I'm meaning this very seriously, a prime religious experience that transcended all the bondages and definitions of who and what we are that are the curse of the world today. This, I would say, is the answer to the atom bomb.

Joseph Campbell
speaking about watching Deadheads
at a Grateful Dead Show (1988)

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Being alive

"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.... I think what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-Joseph Campbell