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
love dream myth
Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.
adventure artist reflection
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
live-life writing waiting
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
thinking giving realization
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
fall
When you are falling --- Dive!
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.
artist perfection faults
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
want resurrection crucifixion
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
live-life thinking important
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
symbols highest
The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.
cancer life-is what-is-the-meaning-of-life
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
song people ears
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
eternity-of-life bliss function
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
life giving miracle
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.