“Whether we live in transcendence or existential despair is simply a matter of which type of myth - religious or deprived - predominantly composes our world.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Dismissing myth is tantamount to dismissing life, for the bulk of our world is made of myths, whether religious or deprived. The world consists of symbols of the nature of mind projected out and reflected on the mirror of human awareness, so to enable self-inquiry.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“We must look where all reality resides: our own mind, profound aspects of which are given symbolic expression in the form of religious myth.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“True religious myths … acknowledge transcendence and foment the openness - the faith - that is precondition to the final leap to freedom. They bring us to the edge of what can be achieved within the framework of language, space and time, priming us for grace.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“You're the one who made it seem like we were doing something wrong. Maybe you still feel like that, because for whatever reason, you think I'm not good enough for you. But I like you, okay? I've liked you from the very beginning."
"It was never going anywhere"
"Because you wouldn't let it go anywhere.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl
“Your perceptions of the sun, rainbows, thunderstorms, etc., are as inaccessible to God as the patterns of firing neurons in your brain - with all their beauty and complexity - are inaccessible to you in any direct way.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The planets, moons, thunderstorms, volcanoes, rocks, even specs of dust. They are all symbols of transcendence… The world around you is a book waiting to be deciphered.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Love nurtures but also smothers, depending on the dose and perspective.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“…once can easily see in an object at once a perfection and an absence of origin, a closure and a brilliance, a transformation of life into matter (matter is much more magical than life), and in a word a silence which belongs to the realm of fairy-tales.”
Source: Mythologies