Frases de Joseph Campbell

„Cada uno seguimos un camino, cada uno vivimos nuestra propia aventura encontrándonos con todo tipo de desafíos, y las decisiones que tomamos nos hacen ser lo que somos. Esas decisiones nos pondrán a prueba y nos llevarán al límite. Al final, nos harán más fuertes de lo que nunca imaginamos.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„Debemos estar dispuestos a dejar ir la vida que planeamos para tener la vida que nos espera.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„Ni siquiera tenemos que arriesgarnos solos a la aventura, porque los héroes de todos los tiempos se nos han adelantado.“

—  Joseph Campbell

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

„La vida no tiene sentido. Cada uno de nosotros tiene sentido y lo traemos a la vida. Es un desperdicio hacerte la pregunta cuando tu eres la respuesta.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„Hay más realidad en una imagen que en una palabra“

—  Joseph Campbell, El poder del mito

The Power of Myth

„La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo.“

—  Joseph Campbell

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

„Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.“

—  Joseph Campbell, El poder del mito

The Power of Myth

„The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.“

—  Joseph Campbell, libro The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Fuente: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 1
Contexto: Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

„If you are falling…. dive.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.“

—  Joseph Campbell

Fuente: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

„The passage of the mythological hero“

—  Joseph Campbell, libro The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Fuente: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 2
Contexto: The passage of the mythological hero may be overground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.... Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar. The dreadful mutilations are then seen as shadows, only, of an immanent, imperishable eternity; time yields to glory; and the world sings with the prodigious, angelic, but perhaps finally monotonous, siren music of the spheres. Like happy families, the myths and the worlds redeemed are all alike.

„You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.“

—  Joseph Campbell

Fuente: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

„We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.“

—  Joseph Campbell

Variante: You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

„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.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.“

—  Joseph Campbell, El poder del mito

Variante: Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Fuente: The Power of Myth

„If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.“

—  Joseph Campbell

„Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.“

—  Joseph Campbell, El poder del mito

Fuente: The Power of Myth