Only While They Are Conforming Their Actions To The Model Of Some Archetypal Hero Do The Arunta Feel That They Are Truly Alive, For In Those Roles They Are Immortal. The Occasions On Which They Slip From Such Molds Are Quite Meaningless, For Time Immediately Devours Those Occasions And Reduces Them To Nothingness.

-Huston Smith

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Only While They Are Conforming Their Actions

Huston Smith

Only While They Are Conforming Their Actions To The Model Of Some Archetypal Hero Do The Arunta Feel That They Are Truly Alive, For In Those Roles They Are Immortal. The Occasions On Which They Slip From Such Molds Are Quite Meaningless, For Time Immediately Devours Those Occasions And Reduces Them To Nothingness.

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Hero

Mold

Roles

The Notion That Western Religions Are More Rigid Than Those Of Asia Is Overdrawn. Ours Is The Most Permissive Society History Has Ever Known - Almost The Only Thing That Is Forbidden Now Is To Forbid - And Asian Teachers And Their Progeny Play Up To This Propensity By Soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's Rules.

Teacher

Forbidden

Western