Joseph Campbell Quotes About God
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
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Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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