Through the fantastic trick of self-reference, our thoughts make the intangible phantasmagoria of present experience feel like a substantial external world unfolding across space and time.

The only meaningful way to conceive of truth implies that truth is internal, not external.

Whether we live in transcendence or existential despair is simply a matter of which type of myth - religious or deprived - predominantly composes our world.

Dismissing myth is tantamount to dismissing life, for the bulk of our world is made of myths, whether religious or deprived. The world consists of symbols of the nature of mind projected out and reflected on the mirror of human awareness, so to enable self-inquiry.

We must look where all reality resides: our own mind, profound aspects of which are given symbolic expression in the form of religious myth.

True religious myths … acknowledge transcendence and foment the openness - the faith - that is precondition to the final leap to freedom. They bring us to the edge of what can be achieved within the framework of language, space and time, priming us for grace.

It is your head that is in your mind, not your mind in your head.

Your perceptions of the sun, rainbows, thunderstorms, etc., are as inaccessible to God as the patterns of firing neurons in your brain - with all their beauty and complexity - are inaccessible to you in any direct way.

The planets, moons, thunderstorms, volcanoes, rocks, even specs of dust. They are all symbols of transcendence… The world around you is a book waiting to be deciphered.