The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.