Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor Quotes
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
![Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor Quotes: "[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)"](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations45/T-he-experience-of-mystery-comes-not-45209.jpg)
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.