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
children hero adventure
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.
inspirational pain giving
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
recovery addiction fruit
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
unfortunate-things people can-do
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
life doors desire
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
inspirational life winter
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.
broken imagination use
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.
communication thinking bliss
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
inspiring memorial-day courage
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
inspirational life inspiring
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
inspirational life encouraging
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
inspirational god heaven
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
dancing answers atoms
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
people soul listening
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.