Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphor… - Joseph Campbell

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Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth — penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

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Joseph Campbell (26 March 1904 – 30 October 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator most famous for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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Birth Name: Joseph John Campbell Smith

Alternative Names: Joseph John Campbell • Joseph Cambell

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It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth — penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images,

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Michael J. Meade Carl Jung Alan Watts Hermann Hesse Aurobindo Ghosh

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Sí. La idea de un dios siempre está culturalmente condicionada,

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

But the mystery of the being of your wristwatch will be identical with the mystery of the being of the universe and of yourself as well.

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