Artifexia

I've posted this quote before, but I'm going to repost it because it is so fucking timely right now, it is the expanded form of my "second sentence", as PKD might put it...

"Every god, every mythology, every religion is true in this sense:
it is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know
he who knows he doesn't know, knows.
There is an old story that is still good:
the story of the quest, the spiritual quest -
that is to say, to find the inward thing which you basically are.
All of these symbols in mythology are referring to you:
Have you been reborn?
Have you died to your animal nature and come to life as a human incarnation?"

- Joseph Campbell