Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Quotes

• “Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In ou...”
• “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the oth...”
• “There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are no...”
• “How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem....”
• “The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the...”
• “When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your ...”
• “With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise,...”
• “The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, g...”
• “It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”