"The concept of time shuts off eternity."
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"Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)"
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"Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey."
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"The influence of a vital being vitalizes."
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"We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us"
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"Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth."
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"One looks, looks long, and the world comes in."
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"There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy."
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"Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery."
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"Everything starts with a story."
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"The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world.""
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"Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable."
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"I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive"
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"It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported."
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"The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves."
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"Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally."
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"We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth."
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"A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion."
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"Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life."
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