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God as Mother

Spiritual Misfits Podcast

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The Power of Metaphors

When it comes to speaking about God, we rely almost exclusively on metaphor. But one of the biggest dangers of our religious metaphors is that they can become set like concrete. It was Eckart who said, God rid me of God, a prayerful plea that every false container might be shattered. Sometimes the only way to see is to unsee. The only way to learn is to unlearn.

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