Campbell Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by more..more..

“ Campbell :We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. #Planning#Planning

“ Campbell :The best advice is to take it all as if it had been of your intention — with that, you evoke the participation of your will. #Advice#Advice

“ Campbell :When the going gets tough, the tough get going. #Perseverance #Perseverance

“ Campbell :I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. #Knowledge#Knowledge

“ Campbell :The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets... The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. #Heroes and Heroism#Heroes and Heroism

“ Campbell :Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. #Space#Space

“ Campbell :The experience of a lifetime is the privilege of being who you are. #Experience#Experience

“ Campbell :Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. #Character#Character

“ Campbell :Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. #Enjoyment#Enjoyment

“ Campbell :This is the threat to our lives. We all face it. We all operate in our society in relation to a system. Now is the system going to eat you up and relieve you of your humanity or are you going to be able to use the system to human purposes?... If the person doesn't listen to the demands of his own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crack-up. The person has put himself off center. He has aligned himself with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body's interested in at all. And the world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Campbell :Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands? Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time — namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. #Common Sense#Common Sense

“ Campbell :Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all. #Heroes and Heroism#Heroes and Heroism

“ Campbell :You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules. #Creativity#Creativity

“ Campbell :The adventure is its own reward — but it's necessarily dangerous, having both negative and positive possibilities, all of them beyond control. #Control#Control

“ Campbell :The future can come from nowhere else but the energies of the psyche. #Competition#Competition

“ Campbell :What is finally the best austerity, what is the best discipline? The best discipline is to enjoy your friends. Enjoy your meals. Realize what play is. Participate in the play, in the play of life. This is known as mahasukha, the great delight. #Friends and Friendship #Friends and Friendship

“ Campbell :This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. It's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body. #Thoughts and Thinking#Thoughts and Thinking

“ Campbell :The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. #Fear#Fear

“ Campbell :Mythology is often thought of as "other peoples" religions... Religion can be defined as mis-interpreted mythology #Religion#Religion

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