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
inspirational hero past
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
hell
Hell is life drying up.
missing alertness moments
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
men mind looks
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
stories
Everything starts with a story.
pain war live-life
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.
giving bliss
Do what gives you bliss.
stories
Every story you tell is your own story.
sunset mountain divinity
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
war two forever
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."
whales fishing minnows
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
creativity fixed behinds
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
inspirational ego messengers
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
arbitrary mercy old-testament
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.