“He eyed my creamy-ice. “You’ll be dead because of that stuff.”
“Your body is your temple. That’s why I’m giving it a treat.” I spooned out an extra-large bite and sucked on it slowly.
My insides swooned.”
Source: Girl With Three Eyes
“To think how thrilled she was when she took the job to have to sign the Official Secrets Act. It seemed so deliciously cloak and dagger, and she thought she'd become privy to important national secrets, or at least something interesting. But it's all piffle, baffling as hell and twice as boring.”
Source: A Particular Man
“Truth to tell, what is invested in the concept is less reality than a certain knowledge of reality; in passing from the meaning to the form, the image loses some knowledge: the better to receive the knowledge in the concept. In actual fact, the knowledge contained in a mythical concept is confused, made of yielding, shapeless associations.”
Source: Mythologies
“A religious myth can bring transcendence into everyday life in an abiding manner. It can infuse ordinary aspects of life with enchantment and timeless significance, thereby saving the human animal from existential despair.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Our mind needs a code to translate consensus images into thoughts and feelings… the translation code takes the form of a mental narrative we tell ourselves; a story that implies particular correspondences between outer images and inner feelings and ideas. The translation code is thus a myth… myth is a story that implies a certain way of interpreting consensus reality so to derive meaning and affective charge from its images and interactions.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“We long for a more-than-merely-human condition; a form of immortality and boundlessness that would allow us to observe the drama of our ephemeral lives from ‘above,’ as opposed to being engulfed and drowned by it.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The impetus of human life is to transcend the limitations of the ordinary human condition and realize a form of eternal significance. Although transcendence can be experienced in mystical or spiritual states, the experience is almost never abiding and does not permeate one’s daily life.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Science’s blind devotion to the gods of chance and automatism condemns its myths to hollowness.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Contemporary science cannot acknowledge even the possibility of meaning and purpose - let alone transcendence - for real mean and tough chicks face bleak facts. This isn’t skepticism but cynicism… It reflects an attitude as beset by blind belief as any religious dogma.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Because of the contemporary tendency toward cynicism and fundamentalism, we’ve marginalized our religious myths and made them small and flattened. Consequently, we’ve lost our connection with transcendence.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief