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"One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces."
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"We do not actually know other cultures, we only know our judgements."
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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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"Inheritance and culture obscure people's higher capacities."
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"The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by."
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"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."
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"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born."
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"A single recipe holds countless stories."
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"Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology."
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"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."
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"The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men."
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."
Dream
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
Computer
"The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution."
Philosophy
"In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal."
Art
"How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually."
Art
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
Space
"The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)"
Education
"If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings."
Society
"The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audiblecall that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without."
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"You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be."
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