Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
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God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
inspirational god function
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
inspirational god devil
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
inspirational god space
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)
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The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
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The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.
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Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.