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 hero men
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
beautiful views broken
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
heart greek born
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
believe horizon looks
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
communication play nonviolent-communication
Don't do anything that isn't play
god reflection men
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
mind suffering
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
hands invisible-hand path
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
art men two
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
fate drag guides
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!
dream stories inspired
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.
play universe
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.
alive rapture seeking
We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
looks elements chance
When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'