Dom Bede Griffiths wrote, ‘There is a deep centre in your being where God is always present. In this deep centre you are loved by God. You are in Him and He is in you.’
Similarly St Augustine wrote, ‘I was searching without while you were within, more inward than my most inmost self’, a view echoed by that great mystic, Meister Eckhart: ‘God is closer to me than myself.’
It is interesting that Jung, as a psychologist, wrote, ‘Every day I am thankful to God that I have been allowed to experience the reality of the Divine Image within me.’ As Jesus also said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you.’
Slowly, if we persevere in deep meditation, each of us will come to this realisation. God is indefinable, but we shall sense a presence within us, and around us. Indeed, as Joseph Campbell once wrote, ‘One has only to know and trust and the ageless guardians will appear.’ We are never alone.
This resonates deeply with me. Thankyou James. I will share it at my Quaker Meeting.
James
Beautiful post. Just wanted I needed to hear today.
Jeralyn
I read this at my Quaker Meeting for Worship this morning and several Friends came to me afterwards and said how they had found it meaningful for them. One person had read James Campbell with great interest.
I mean Joseph Campbell!