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289 - My Most Anti-Symbolic Talk - The Quest For A Spiritual Home Conference

The Symbolic World

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The Importance of Purpose in Life

When that image lands, when it happens, there's an aspect of it which is bright. And if we don't, then it becomes an idol, right? The whole story of idolatry in Scripture is has something to do with that. All of these things that are good, if we try to grasp them, then they immediately die. So we have to give them up on purpose and let them die willfully so that we're not caught with this frozen, dead thing in our hand.

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