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
cutting yield done
When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.
depth consciousness myth
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
inspirational motivational military
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
adventure ego world
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
inspirational regret hero-journey
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
birthday money jobs
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
inspirational fall gold
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
inspirational god devil
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
inspirational life inspiring
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
reading water swim
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
live-life order giving
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
inspirational fall ifs
If you are falling....dive.
inspirational religious atheist
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
inspirational positive-thinking garden
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!