God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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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
When you follow your bliss ... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors and where there wouldn't be adoor for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one
Joseph Campbell
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
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Everybody's going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don't like. There's enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.
Joseph Campbell
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