Beliefs should be like fluid entities within the mind, some malleable and doubtful, others more viscous and certain. But feeling certain should never be confused with being incontestable. Once a belief is allowed to solidify, it becomes like a shackle on the mind, inhibiting exploration, learning and growth. A fluid mind should never allow a belief to be so hardened that it is beyond rational scrutiny. A fluid mind always invites rational examination upon even its most cherished convictions.
“Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student’s experience that he cannot believe them to be true.... hence the omission from standard European mythologies...of all Biblical narratives even when closely paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece.”
—Robert Graves
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