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 spiritual possibility
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
goal leopards pieces
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
misunderstood second-best conversation
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
shining radiance all-things
The one radiance shines through all things.
thinking truth-is found
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
dream doors inward
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
stress struggle men
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
world want helping
If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
hero adventure ready
The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
book hero adventure
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.
hero journey
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
hero victory world
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
significant importance objects
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
hero creative guides
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.