God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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