Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
stories
Every story you tell is your own story.
sunset mountain divinity
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
war two forever
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."
whales fishing minnows
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
creativity fixed behinds
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
inspirational ego messengers
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
arbitrary mercy old-testament
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
nature storyteller
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
food people vegetarian
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
intuition may littles
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
being-yourself privilege greater
There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
heaven brahma priesthood
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
men imagination facts
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
way bliss follow-your-bliss
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.