The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.