[T]he artist, functioning in this proper way... |
[T]he artist, functioning in this "proper" way, is the true seer and prophet of his century, the justifier of life and as such, of course, a revolutionary far more fundamental in his penetration of th...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:52:00 PST |
One cannot predict the next mythology... |
One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from th...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:51:00 PST |
What myth does for you... |
What myth does for you is to point beyond the phenomenal field toward the transcendent. A mythic figure is like the compass that you used to draw circles and arcs in school, with one leg in the field ...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:48:00 PST |
Artists are magical helpers... |
Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives.From Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal ...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:47:00 PST |
The virtues of the past are the vices of today... |
The virtues of the past are the vices of today. And many of what were thought to be the vices of the past are the necessities of today. The moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of ac...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:46:00 PST |
Mythology is composed by poets... |
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 ...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:44:00 PST |
The Promised Land is not a place... |
The Promised Land is not a place to be conquered by armies and solidified by displacing other people. The Promised Land is a corner in the heart. From Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:43:00 PST |
The laws of space are known... |
The laws of space are known to the mind and are in the mind ... the laws of space are within us ... and a whole new mythology is implicit in this.From The Inner Reaches of Outer Space...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:41:00 PST |
Follow your bliss... |
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 you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:39:00 PST |
The institutional churches must grow... |
It is inevitable that children should be taught in purely concrete terms. But then the child grows up and realizes who Santa Claus is. He is really Daddy. So, too, we must grow in the same way in lear...
Posted by Joseph Campbell on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:35:00 PST |
