The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

This must be I guess the most extreme form of unintended consequence, but it seemed to me a great metaphor for things that happen all the time.