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
life world opinion
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
should-have blisters said
I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
sorrow
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life
giving-up mean simplicity
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.
inspirational life unique
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
stills
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
moving doubt mountain
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
inspirational hero adventure
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...
love dream myth
Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.
adventure artist reflection
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
live-life writing waiting
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
thinking giving realization
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
fall
When you are falling --- Dive!
inspirational way path
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.