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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell quotes about god

American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life. Joseph Campbell
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Joseph Campbell
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and... Joseph Campbell
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine? a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. Joseph Campbell
We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomonation, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. Joseph Campbell
And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. Joseph Campbell
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18) Joseph Campbell
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50) Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious..."
The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of..."
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you..."
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!"
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah! Joseph Campbell
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined? Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils..."
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. Joseph Campbell

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