When complexities are quickly grasped by experience, we call this intuition. However it's a mistake to rely on only personal experience, for any one person’s life is not long enough. To sustain the amount of experience needed to develop intuition, you must consume stories
Alchemy comes from a time when people considered science a process and a philosophy, and **took allegories seriously enough to learn from them.**
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**Every child knows it is right to build, to dance, and to shout, though they cannot explain why. Nothing is more natural for the child or the ancient than to build a temple, or to deem objects sacred.**
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The rationalist points out that the sun is a star, in fact quite a small and fairly unremarkable one. **But the meek are blessed: It is only to a person with the proper amount of humility that the sun is really a sun, and to whom each sunrise is new.**
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**To argue proofs of religion is to miss the point of religion. What matters is if one’s sense of gratitude and wonder are fitting responses to our world.**
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