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
hero adversity people
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
people feelings attention
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
class parent our-society
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
realms relate heavenly
The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
way path
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.
law survival firsts
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
love life divine
It is within you that the divine lives.
art mirrors mind
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
people inward messages
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.
inspirational life spiritual
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
art thinking doe
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
growing moments great-things
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
inspirational want world
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
fun book thinking
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.