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-journey way realizing
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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.
way bliss follow-your-bliss
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
reality way quotation-marks
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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.
insecure way secure
The insecure way is the secure way.
thinking way different
You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
dream peculiar way
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
creativity artist way
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
ideas important way
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
way plenty you-choose
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
giving way depth
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
way path
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.
art goal way
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.