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
stills
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
mean littles enthusiasm
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
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.
hero dragons champion
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
hero journey snakes
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
inspirational thinking people
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
real artist radiance
A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.
mythology misinterpreted defined
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
should-have blisters said
I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
sorrow
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life
beautiful girl dragons
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.
way bliss follow-your-bliss
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
careers bliss self-actualization
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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.