Artwork

RIC_1051-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We are all phenomenal manifestations 
of a divine will to live, and that will 
and the consciousness of life is one in all of us,
and that is what artwork expresses. 

Joseph Campbell

Mythology & Religion

RCC_0798, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Mythology may, in a real sense, 

be defined as other people’s religion. 

And religion may, in a real sense, 

be understood as a popular misunderstanding of mythology.

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That

Remain Radiant

RCC_0788, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Let the world be as it is
and learn to rock with the waves.

Remain 'radiant,'
as Joyce put it,
in the filth of the world.

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

Your adventure

Candle 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.

Joseph Campbell

Being you

Candles 1 (2013, 1. 29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The privilege of a life time

is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Living

Neighbourhood 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The divine lives within you.
Live from your own centre.

Joseph Campbell

Meaning

Lamp & reflection, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Being alive is the meaning. 

Joseph Campbell

Compassion

RC1_4927, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The purpose of the journey 

is compassion.

Joseph Campbell

Courage

Bethesda Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


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

Joseph Campbell

Life, Destiny & Death

RIC_3196-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The secret cause of your death is your destiny. Every life

     has a limitation, and in challenging the limit you are

     bringing the limit closer to you, and the heroes are the

     ones who initiate their actions no matter what destiny

     may result. ... your own life course is the secret cause of

     your death.

       Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Your Life

RIC_2698-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     What can it be that has never yet been seen?
     What has never yet been seen is your own unprecedented
     life fulfilled.
     Your life is what has yet to be brought into being. 

         Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Myths

RIC_2579-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Myths derive from the visions of people searching their own most inward world. Out of myths cultures are founded.

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Mythology

RIC_2085, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     A whole mythology is an organization of

     symbolic images and narratives,

     metaphorical of the possibilities of human

     experience and the fulfillment of a given

     culture at a given time. 

       Joseph Campbell, 
       "Metaphor and Religious Mystery," Thou Art That: Transforming
       Religious Metaphor

Life we planned

RIC_1141-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

         We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so
    as to have the life that is waiting for us.

      Joseph Campbell

Passion

RIC_6246-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Follow your bliss!

Joseph Campbell

Life experiences

_DSC4626, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our life experiences will have resonances

within our innermost being, so that we will

feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Role of Artist

RIC_1907, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell