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"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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"War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross."
"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"
"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."
"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."
"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."
"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."
"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."
"It is what it is because you let it be so."
"I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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