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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dimension Forever Future Past
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

History Important True Yourself
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Journey Path Way Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Meaning Question Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Learning Wave World
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Happiness Pain Place

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

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