We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and … - Joseph Campbell

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When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it. . . we need to change the message!!

Joseph Campbell

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.

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