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"I'll tell you a way, a very nice way. Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. This realization of life can be a constant realization in your living..."
— Dec 05, 2012 07:56AM
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Chris
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"No, mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, beyond the bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. So thus is the penultimate truth."
— Dec 11, 2012 09:27AM
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"...When you find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done. Don't say, 'Oh, I want to know what So-and-so did"--and don't bother with the best-seller list. Just read what he had read. And then the world opens up in a way that is consistent with a certain point of view."
— Dec 05, 2012 07:56AM
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This could be the introduction to Chekhov's stories: "One thing that comes out in myths is at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."
— Nov 13, 2012 08:27PM
