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
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.
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The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
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Airbus really escaped unscathed in this cycle, ... Boeing has a monopoly with the big planes in Asia. (It) has really made a living out there; the Asian flu affects Boeing more than Airbus.
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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living
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When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
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When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater lifes pain, the greater lifes reply.
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Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that, every now and then, and to realize, ""Oh...... ah.....
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God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.
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When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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.