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
children childhood community
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.
pain love-is stronger
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
inspirational dark rivers
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
warrior approach
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.
thinking knows
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
baseball moving taken
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
sacrifice sacrificing-yourself persons
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
needs
I don't need faith. I have experience.
people world answers
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
white faces holy-places
As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
art revelations art-is
Art is the clothing of a revelation
wise courage jobs
I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.
animal men sick
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?
regret war ignorance
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.