How do you reconcile the role of science, which is reason, with the role of faith, which is religion? - Joseph Campbell

In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

Sit in a room and read — and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).