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American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? 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
[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new..."
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. 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: "The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in..."
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in..."
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, 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
Joseph Campbell quote: "I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is..."
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is..."
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) Joseph Campbell
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves. Joseph Campbell
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind 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
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience. Joseph Campbell
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. Joseph Campbell

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