The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
Joseph CampbellDragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.
Joseph Campbell