Joseph Campbell quote: The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and ...

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)

~ Joseph Campbell ~

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