What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame.
Joseph CampbellGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph CampbellThere is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
Joseph Campbell