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
heroism matter step
Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.
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Original Experience has not been interpreted for you, and so youve got to work out life for yourself. Either you can take it or you cant. You dont have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. 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 heros deed.
giving heroic function
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
hero-journey way realizing
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
good-life military hero
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
inspirational hero adventure
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...
hero night journey
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
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.
hero journey self
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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You are the Hero of your own Story.
inspirational hero-journey way
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
adventure heroic life-is
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.