Alain De Botton Quotes

Mary In Christianity, Isis In Ancient Egypt, Demeter In Greece, Venus In Rome And Guan Yin In China Have All Functioned As Conduits To Recollections Of Early Tenderness. Their Statues Often Stand In Darkened, Womb-like Spaces, Their Faces Are Compassionate And Supportive, They Enable Us To Sit, Talk And Cry With Them. The Similarities Between Them Are Too Great To Be Coincidental. We Are Dealing Here With Figures That Have Evolved Not Out Of Shared Cultural Origins But In Response To The Universal Needs Of The Human Psyche.

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