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
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.
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When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
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A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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Religon is misunderstood mythology
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a
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Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.
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Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.