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
dream absence pantheon
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
adventure firsts given
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
life wall midlife
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
inspirational moving order
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
reality true-identity unity
Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
needs hell happens
Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
inspirational fall tunnels
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.
inspirational encouraging encouragement
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
inspirational cancer names
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
outcomes exciting ifs
Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
inspirational poetry biographies
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
secular-society long may
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.
eye rocks opposites
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
god simple intellectual
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.