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- Recognize that your organism is just trying to survive. It will reduce risk and seek predictability.
- Theology is the poetry of thought.
- You cannot be released from your anxiety, you cannot meditate your way out of life’s tragic circumstances. Some things cannot be fixed, or made more efficient, or cheerful.
- A good philosopher is a subtle autobiographer.
- Philosophical are personal problems turned inside out.
- Nothing can trouble the dominance of a true image: make an image for your soul, and it will endure.
- Religious truth, even negative truth (nihilism), is not only a portion, but a general condition, of knowledge.
- Sanity means taking responsibility, not making exceptions.
- A personality disorder is a want of philosophy; neurosis is a breakdown of practical reasoning.
- Theology, at this point in the history of culture, is any thoughtful anti-reductionism (holism).
- All beings may conduct themselves with grace, dignity, passion.
- Your soul is an algorithm which answers the question: why is there life on earth?
- Plato’s comparison of the city and the soul could not have been more apt. The depth, power, and perceptivity of this analogy has never been fully appreciated.
