"The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding."

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Source : Jeremy Narby (2016). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.104, Hachette UK

Jeremy Narby

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“You mustnâ€™t wish for another life. You mustnâ€™t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: â€œRejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.â€ I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”
“I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.”
“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”
“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”
“I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?”
“I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As everybody knows, chicks dig the vampires.”
“I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.”

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