About Joseph Campbell: Joseph John Campbell is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
All religions are true but none are literal.
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of esse...
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all in, but also interpreting it in whatever ways are useful. So too, one will rea...
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
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.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
