Joseph John Campbell:
(White Plains (New York), 26 March 1904 – Honolulu, 30 October 1987).
American literary scholar specialising in comparative mythology and comparative religious studies.
He left behind a large body of work covering many aspects of human experience. His thinking is often summed up in his life motto Follow Your Bliss, or ‘Follow your heart’.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Love is a friendship set to music.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, your mind, or your house, where you do not owe anyone, and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
