Beliefs

Your beliefs – they are just that. They are nothing, they are just how you were taught, and raised. That doesn’t make them real. You have a right to your beliefs, but that does not mean your beliefs are right. You shouldn’t believe everything you were told, and you shouldn’t believe everything you hear. Don’t believe hastily.

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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H. L. Mencken

You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep-seated need to believe. - Carl Sagan

Your beliefs don’t make you a better person. Your behaviour does. - Unknown

The world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education. - Sam Harris

Beliefs don’t change facts. Facts, if you’re reasonable, should change your beliefs. - Ricky Gervais

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Atheism

Atheism is not a religion. One does not convert to Atheism. One simply realizes everything they’ve been told about god is bullshit.

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Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. - Dan Barker

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. - A. A. Milne

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. - Eric Hoffer

The road to Atheism is littered with bibles that have been read cover to cover. - Andrew L. Seidel

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. - Robert Green Ingersoll

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Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is of utmost importance to spiritual practice. When our minds are troubled, and not at peace, we will not be able to think or concentrate. Only when our minds are calm and peaceful, then we can be aware of our surroundings and what is happening around us. Hence, our first spiritual practice should be to practice Peace of Mind.

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The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. - Morihei Ueshiba

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us. - Black Elk

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Spiritual Teachers

It is good to have a teacher to guide us on the spiritual path. However, good and genuine teachers are hard to come by. Until one comes along we have to depend on ourselves. It is said when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Until then, we can refer to the Teachings of the Buddhas and the sages to guide us. Let them be our guides, our teachers.

Understand also, that Spirituality is a very personal thing. And our spiritual journey is ours to take. We have to undergo the process of understanding and enlightenment ourselves. No one can do it for us. Teachers, however great, can never give their knowledge to the pupils. They can only point out the direction of the Path. After listening to the teacher, whether or not we walk the Path by practicing ourselves, is strictly up to each one of us. Teachers can kindle the light if the oil is in the lamp.

So, if we are confident in ourselves, we might not need a teacher. The Buddha himself didn’t have a teacher. He gained enlightenment on his own.

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The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are. - Unknown

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise. Open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees-should be your teacher. - Morihei Ueshiba

An awakened teacher can only be your lighthouse, casting light on your path, but you must understand it and walk your own path. - Frank M. Wanderer

The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries. - Lao Tzu

Don't just go and believe in the teacher because he says a fruit is sweet and delicious. Taste it for yourself and then all the doubting will be over. - Unknown

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Enlightenment

As with all learning, spiritual enlightenment is gained little by little. We can’t learn and know everything at once. That is just not possible. If anything, it would overwhelm us. In the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, we have to be very patient. The answers will come when we are ready, sometimes when we least expect it, in ways we didn’t imagine.

As long as we keep on the spiritual path, we will make progress. The progress might be so gradual that we are not aware of it. But one day, when we look back, we will see we have progressed far. As long as we do not give up, we will gain enlightenment eventually - perhaps not full enlightenment like the Buddha, but certainly some degrees of enlightenment nonertheless.

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One must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. - Morihei Ueshiba

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. - Eckhart Tolle

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. - Alan Watts

Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. Its seeing through the façade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Spirituality

Your life is a process of self-realization. Nobody is coming to help you. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Spirituality is not religion. Spirituality is not something connected with holy books, and not connected with religions. Spirituality must be lived, not just studied. All the books in the world will not help us if we do not live what we learn.

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When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure – with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown. - Elizabeth Lesser

Most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there's no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as there are individual souls. - Robert M. Pirsig

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace. - Sri Ramakrishna

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Spirituality

Spirituality is not a path of escape. Life is not a prison and spirituality need not be an attempt to escape from life. Once we have seriously embarked upon the spiritual path, we begin to look upon the conditions in the world from a different point of view.

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Spirituality is not constant meditation and an indifference to surrounding conditions and responsibilities; rather, it is doing those things which are in accordance with the mind. It concerns itself with temporal life as well as with things of the spirit. - David McKay

Spirituality is a broad concept, transcending religious boundaries. By virtue of being human, all people are spiritual, regardless of whether or how they participate in religious observance. - Margaret A. Burkhardt

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life. - Elizabeth Lesser

Spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being. - Elizabeth Lesser

We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human. - Jacqueline Small

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. - Deepak Chopra

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan

Religion is belief in someone else’s experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. - Deepak Chopra

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the journedy Inward. Mystics embark on an inward journey, seeking to explore the depths of their own consciousness and soul. This journey often involves practices such as meditation, contemplation, and prayer.

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There’s a saying which states ‘Religion is for the masses, and mysticism is for the individual’. If you want to be a sheep and follow along with the masses to get a generic, candy-coated version of your spirituality, then follow the teachings of the Christian fathers. If you want to explore your won individual spirituality, you must go deeply inside yourself, instead of through church doors. - Jordan Maxwell

Mystical attainment is an individual accomplishment. Others influence our way of approaching life, but the development of the inner self must be undertaken in solitude. It is by retreating within, facing the real self, and relying on his own resources that the way to mastery of life is achieved. - Unknown

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness. - Russell Targ

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Zen

Zen is the Japanese pronunciation of a Chinese word, ch’an which comes from a Sanskrit root meaning ‘thought’, ‘absorption’, or ‘meditaiton’. And meditation is at the heart of Zen, along with an emphasis on self-control and insight.

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How does one incorporate the teachings of Zen in daily life?

Zen is everywhere....

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. - Bodhidharma

We do those things but we’re following our thinking the whole time. We’re eating, but we’re not really tasting the food. We’re not fully living in the moment. Living in the moment – that’s Zen. - Unknown

Drink your tea slowly and reverently… As if it is the axis on which the earth revolves. Slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. - Unknown

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. - Osho

When you find peace and quiet in the midst of busyness and clamour, then towns and cities become mountain forests; afflictions are enlightenment, sentient beings realize true awakening… You have to actually experience stable peacefulness before you attain oneness; you cannot force understanding. - Zen Master Foyan

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Tao - The Way of Nature

In the context of Eastern philosophy, particularly Taoism, Tao (or Dao) refers to the ‘way’, ‘path’, or ‘principle’ that guides the universe and everything within it. It’s often understood as the fundamental, natural order of reality.

Tao can be seen as the underlying principle that governs the cosmos, influencing everything from the movement of celestial bodies to the growth of plants and the behaviour of humans.

The Tao is often described as something that is difficult to grasp or define, as it is beyond the limitations of human language and thought.

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What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop. - Chang San-feng

Most people suffer from a case of mistaken identity, a kind of cosmic amnesia. We identify with our social persona and dramas, forgetting that – at a deeper level – we are each a unique creative expression of Life and the Universe. Identification with limited conceptions of who we are creates false divisions and limitations in our minds. It keeps us separated from each other and the greater community of Nature and Universe that we all belong to, that evolved and birthed us into being. Don’t believe everything you think. It’s important to connect directly with the embodied Universe that surrounds you and question limited beliefs society has planted in your head. - Tao & Zen

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. - Chuang-tzu

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Chi / Energy

The Chinese call it Chi, or Qi, meaning Life Force Energy. Westerners call it the Universal Life Force or Vital Life force. They mean the same thing.

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Everything is Energy. Energy connects everything. Energy carries information. The past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Therefore, as energetic beings, we have access to the past, present and future at any point in time via energy. It all connects. - Unknown

Look around you. If you take away the Energy, or the Life Force in everything that you see, what would you be left with? - Unknown

The physical body is actually a body of energy. - Mencius

All things, including all the landforms, oceans and living things on earth, the earth itself and all heavenly bodies … are the products of changing states of chi. The current universe is a state in the endless progression of changing chi. This changing chi has its definite principles, order and laws. The cause of this changing chi is its intrinsic nature of opposing yet complementary yin-yang. - Cheng Yi Shan

If our heart is at peace, our whole body of energy is at peace. If our heart is righteous, our whole body of energy is righteous. - Zhang Dai

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The Universe

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This – the immediate every day and present experience – is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a Universe. - Alan Watts

When I look up at the night sky I know that we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

All things are linked with one another, and this Oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this Universal Order. - Marcus Aurelius

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Dr. Carl Sagan

The universe is far stranger and far richer – more wondrously strange – than our meagre human imaginations can anticipate. Modern cosmology has driven us to consider ideas that could not even have been formulated a century ago. The great discoveries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have not only changed the world in which we operate, they have revolutionized our understanding of the world – or worlds – that exist, or may exist, just under our noses: the reality that lies hidden until we are brave enough to search for it. - Lawrence M. Krauss

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Science

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By reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science – far from dulling the mystery of existence – sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savoured than solved. - Unknown

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. - Stephen Hawking

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. - Hendrik Willem van Loon

When different experiments give you the same results, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science. It’s true, whether or not you believing it. That’s why it works. - Neil Degrasse Tyson

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What Is Meditation

Defining meditation has proven difficult due to its wide range of practices across different traditions. In popular usage, "meditation" is often used imprecisely to designate practices aimed at training attention, calmness, or compassion. There is no universally accepted definition. Theories and practices differ within traditions, with some emphasizing the inseparability of meditation from their cultural and religious contexts, while others focus on its role in achieving a relaxed or devout state. - Wikipedia

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Meditation is the signpost directing the steps to the main highway of realization. - Guy Bogart

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings. - Tenzin Palmo

Meditation is the act of turning consciousness towards its own center, so that it perceives itself. - Lawrence Galante

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. - Geneen Roth

Meditation aspires to rediscover the Light by removing the layers of unwanted thoughts that are covering it. Once you free yourself from unwanted thoughts, there will be room to observe learn, reflect and accept. - Unknown

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The Truth

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought, and the greatest truths are the simplest. The truth is always the truth, you can't change that with an edict. Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. People can’t change truth, but the truth can change people.

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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your Self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. - Dogen

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth. - Huang Po

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings, in destruction; meetings, in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and, faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth. - Milarepa

When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice. - Benjamin Whichcote

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Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will): being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (Which it won’t). - James Baraz

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. Practice Mindfulness. - Sylvia Boorstein

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what’s happening – without judgement and without interference. It is like a mirror that simply reflects whatever comes before it. - Unknown

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Compassion

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Great compassion is the root of all spiritual paths, and of all Superior beings. - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. - Amit Ray

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the seed we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening. - Buddha

Compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind, wanting others to be free from suffering. It’s not passive – it’s not empathy alone – but rather an empathetic altruism that actively strives to free others from suffering. Genuine compassion must have both wisdom and loving kindness. That is to say, one must understand the nature of the suffering from which we wish to free others (this is wisdom), and one must experience deep intimacy and empathy with other sentient beings (this is loving kindness). - The Dalai Lama (Essence of the Heart Sutra)

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. - Albert Schweitzer

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Buddhism

I embrace Buddhism as a philosophy, as a Way of Life. I do not care for it as a religion as I do not believe in religion. Religion is divisive. It is the cause of much pain to humanity. I believe the world would be a better place without religion.

Anyway, Buddhism is not a religion, or, it didn’t start out to be a religion in the first place. The Teachings of Gautama Buddha is a Philosophy of Life, or Life Philosophy, or Way of Life – however you want to put it. It teaches us about Life, and how to live our lives rightly.

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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively. It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquillity and happiness. - Walpola Rahula

Acceptance, in the Buddhist sense of the word, is not passivity. It is not accepting what happens without an active response, merely shrugging one's shoulders and declining to engage. Rather, it is looking clearly and calmly at a situation, seeing it for what it is and working with it as it is. - Gary Hayden

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things. - Dogen

Buddhist practice starts with having faith in the cause and effect as depicted by the law of Depenendent Origination! Whereas ‘effect’ could be see by others, it’s ‘cause’ might only be know mostly by oneself. - Master Venerable Hai Tao

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. And suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.

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Views On Religion

There are times when I think religion has its use. Some people need help to deal with the daily demands of life. It helps them keep their sanity. Even if it means believing in something that is unprovable. But then, that thinking is also flawed. People should be taught to be self-reliant. This will help them be in touch with reality instead of being fatalistic, depending on a make-believe entity.

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If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. - Bertrand Russell

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny. - Glen Cook

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Faith

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Having faith that something is true does not make it true.
Having faith does not make it probably true.
Having faith has no bearing on truth whatsoever.
Having faith simple means you will believe it whether it is true or not. - Unknown

The doubt of your faith is not your god testing you. It is your rationality trying to emerge and free you. - Unknown

People always demand respect for their faith. You’ve noticed this happening. Why should I respect someone who makes enormous claims on no evidence, and when confronted with that fact, says, “Well, I don’t need any evidence, I’ve got faith’. I think that extraordinary claims, such as that they know, not just that there is a god, but that they know his mind, they know his instructions, they’ve had revealed truth from him: a claim like that demands extraordinary evidence. Instead of which, they say, ‘No, how about no evidence at all, and just take me on faith?’ Why am I supposed to respect that? I don’t respect it. I suspect it. - Unknown

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