Origine: Citato in Will Tuttle, Cibo per la pace, traduzione di Marta Mariotto, Sonda, Casale Monferrato, 2014, p. 173. ISBN 978-88-7106-742-1
Frasi di Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Data di nascita: 26. Marzo 1904
Data di morte: 30. Ottobre 1987
Altri nomi: Джозеф Кемпбелл
Joseph John Campbell è stato un saggista e storico delle religioni statunitense.
Foto: Joan Halifax, flickr_url: / CC BY 2.0
Frasi Joseph Campbell
Variante: The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Origine: 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.“
Variante: You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Episode 2, Chapter 13-14
The Power of Myth (1988)
Contesto: Campbell: Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There's a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it. "All life is sorrowful" is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn't be life if there were not temporality involved which is sorrow. Loss, loss, loss.
Moyers: That's a pessimistic note.
Campbell: Well, you have to say yes to it, you have to say it's great this way. It's the way God intended it.
„Regrets are illuminations come too late.“
— Joseph Campbell, libro The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Origine: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
„Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.“
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Variante: Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Origine: The Power of Myth
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Origine: The Power of Myth
„The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.“
Origine: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
„I don't have to have faith, I have experience.“
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Origine: The Power of Myth
„Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.“
Variante: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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