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1 " We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to experience a transcendent value that challenges our solipsistic selfishness. We need myths that help us to venerate the earth as sacred once again, instead of merely using it as a 'resource.' This is crucial, because unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that is able to keep abreast of our technological genius, we will not save our planet. "
― Karen Armstrong , A Short History of Myth
2 " The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them. "
― Umberto Eco , Foucault's Pendulum
3 " Chamari: " Aravinda, have you been to Kataragama?" Aravinda: " No, I've never been there." Chamari: " What? That's unbelievable for someone born in Deniyaya!" Aravinda: " Going to Kataragama is not a custom of the rural folk. It is the middle class and wealthy urban people, not the villagers, who venerate the Kataragama god. He is the god of the urbanities. The villagers have now started to imitate the urban people." Chamari:" I thought even villagers used to go to Kataragama long ago." Aravinda: " No, It came from the rich urban Sinhalese of the towns who followed the rich Hindus. "
4 " ...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... "
― , A Familiar Rain
