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.
Joseph CampbellWhen you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
Joseph CampbellThe realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
Joseph CampbellThere is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
Joseph Campbell