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
jesus cutting ears
There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.
inspirational people myth
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
inspirational compassion embrace
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
soul world requirements
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
baby human-nature
All babies are Buddha babies.
god army hell
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
hero focus may
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
facts doe heroic
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
inspirational hero past
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
hell
Hell is life drying up.
missing alertness moments
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
men mind looks
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
pain war live-life
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.
giving bliss
Do what gives you bliss.