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
mean names people
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
religion mystery mythology
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
dragons knowing-who-you-are ego
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
path fronts ifs
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
inspirational spiritual possibility
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
inspirational religious moon
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
beautiful views broken
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
inspirational poetry doe
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
inspirational heart yield
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
waste done shame
It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
goal leopards pieces
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
illumination solitude departure
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
path wonderful pollen
The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'
play universe
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.