We are all manifestations of a mystic power: the power of life, which has shaped all life, and which has shaped us all in our mother's womb. And this kind of wisdom lives in us, and it represents the force of this power, this energy, pouring into the field of time and space. But it's a transcendent energy. It's an energy that comes from a realm beyond our powers of knowledge. And that energy becomes bound in each of us - in this body - to a certain commitment. Now, the mind that thinks, the eyes that see, they can become so involved in concepts and local, temporal tasks that we become bound up and don't let this energy flow through. And then we become sick. The energy is blocked, and we are thrown off center... So the psychological problem, the way to keep from becoming blocked, is to make yourself transparent to the transcendent...
And one of the problems with the popularization of religious ideas is that the god becomes a final fact and is no longer itself transparent to the transcendent. This is what Lao-Tzu means when he says, in the...Tao-te Ching, "The Tao that can be named is not the Tao." Make your god transparent to the transcendent and it doesn't matter what his name is.
-Joseph Campbell
Pathways to Bliss
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