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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

~Joseph Campbell

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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

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

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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

~Joseph Campbell

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

~Joseph Campbell

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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

~Joseph Campbell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 26th, 1904

Died: October 31st, 1987

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