Quotes by Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In ou — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, g — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the oth — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are no — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as po — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs ar — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find t — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor