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
inspirational men joy
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.
spiritual soul world
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
hero suspense-novels stories
You are the Hero of your own Story.
fall done ifs
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.
reality way quotation-marks
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
inspirational latin school
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
inspirational hero-journey way
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
ideas fixed ifs
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
narrative metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
adventure heroic life-is
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
adventure following security
There is no security in following the call to adventure.
inspirational true-friend mind-your-own-business
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
inspirational art people
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
inspirational hero tasks
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.