"The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology."

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Source : Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2003). “Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts”, p.158, University of Toronto Press

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“While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!”

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“Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.”
“I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.”
“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”
“The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.”
“For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is to try and bring the realism and acting you might find in a straight drama with the intentions and conflict, where it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek, but rather committed and real.”

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“Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.”
“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”

Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.

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