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
integrity matter steps
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
spiritual jobs perfect
When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
character goes-on evoke
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
knowing-who-you-are miracle conditions
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
stuck ifs
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
inspirational technology civilization
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
aztec faces life-is
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
order brain quests
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.
path mystery life-is
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
inspirational religious atheist
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?
depth
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
destiny energy fulfillment
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
inspirational time pain
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
secret energy cosmos
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....