The Mind

The mind is defined as “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought”.

“It’s all in the mind,” people often say, without realizing how true that is. The mind is the root from which all things grow. Everything begins and ends in the mind. The mind is what makes everything else work.

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Control of the mind is the key to happiness. It is the kind of virtue and the force behind all true achievement. It is owing to lack of control that various conflicts arise in man’s mind. If he is to control them, he must learn not to give free rein to his longings and inclinations and should try to live a self-governed, pure and calm life. - K. Sri Dhammananda

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, 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

It is only when the mind is controlled and is kept to the right road of orderly progress that it becomes useful for its possessor and for society. A disorderly mind is a liability both to its owner and to others, all the havoc wrought in the world is wrought by men who have not learned the way of mind control, balance and poise. - K. Sri Dhammananda

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Compassion

What is compassion? Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. Compassion is not pity... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion is the sense of our own misfortunes in those of another. It is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

The mind of compassion knows no bitterness nor judgement, no good nor bad, no right nor wrong. Only the wish for all beings to be happy. Compassion is the religion of the heart, the basis of morality.

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Compassion is not a quality to be cultivated in isolation, aloof from life. It is easy to be compassionate from a distance, when your heart is undisturbed. When you are surrounded by those who love and care for you, when you have built a world where pain is repressed or ignored, you can easily immerse yourself in thoughts of love and tolerance. Yet that is a fragile world, built on foundations that will always crumble. Compassion speaks of the willingness to engage with tragedy, loss, and pain. Its domain is not only the world of those you love and care for, but equally the people who threaten you, the countless people you don't know, the homeless person you meet on the street, and the situations of anger and hatred you recoil from. It is here that you learn about the depths of tolerance and understanding that are possible for each one of us. It is here that you learn about dignity, meaning, and greatness of heart. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is not just a feeling; it is a response to pain that is deeply rooted in wisdom. It is a commitment to alleviating suffering and the cause of suffering in all its forms. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love – for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. - Ram Dass

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Buddhism

The man who has conquered self-love is, according to the Buddha, the highest being in the universe. The conquest can be best be acquired by practicing generosity, by following the principles of righteousness and justice, by abstaining from unworthy desires and by observing an elementary morality. The minimum required of a good man, a good citizen, is that he should abstain from taking life, from theft, from unchastity, from lying and from intoxicants, covetousness, malevolence, ill-temper, sloth and torpor of body and mind, fretfulness and irritability, doubt and perplexity - these the Buddha declares are hindrances to spiritual progress.

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When you listen to the Dharma you must open up your heart and compose yourself in the centre. Don't try to accumulate what you hear or make a painstaking effort to retain what you hear through memory. Just let the Dharma flow into your heart as it reveals itself, and keep yourself continuously open to its flow in the present moment. What is ready to be retained will be so, and it will happen of its own accord, not through any determined effort on your part.
Similarly, when you expound the Dharma, you must not force yourself. It should happen on its own and should flow spontaneously from the present moment and circumstances. People have different levels of receptive ability, and when you're there at that same level it just happens, the Dharma flows.

If anyone were to speak ill of me, my doctrine or my disciples, do not bear any ill-will towards him, do not be upset or be perturbed at heart, for if you were to be so it will only cause you harm. On the other hand if anyone were to speak well of me, my doctrine and my disciples, do not be overjoyed, thrilled or be elated at heart, for if you should be so it will only be an obstacle in your way of forming a correct judgment as to whether the qualities of praised are indeed real and actually found in us.
In the self-same way, disciple, a certain monk may be very kind, very gentle, very quiet, so long as no unpleasant words are uttered. When, however, people begin to say unpleasant things of the monk – then is the time to see if the monk is kind, or if he is gentle or if he is quiet.

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Religion

Consider the long history of the activities inspired by moral fervour: human sacrifices, persecutions of heretics, witch-hunts, pogroms leading up to wholesale extermination by poison gases... Are these abominations, and the ethical doctrines by which they are prompted, really evidence of an intelligent Creator? And can we really wish that the men who practised them should live for ever? The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of a deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis. - Bertrand Russell

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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect. - Sigmund Freud

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite. - Stephen Hyde

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash? The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, "There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so god damned lonely any more. - Kurt Vonnegut

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Faith

It’s called Faith because it’s not knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the less faith you need. Faith doesn’t give you the answers. It just stops you from asking the questions.

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Faith is not a part of knowledge. If you have to say you have faith that something exists, then you’ve already admitted that it probably doesn’t. - G. Vorillas

Faith is not a virtue, it’s the glorification of voluntary ignorance. - Unknown

Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don’t have a good reason. - Matt Dillahunty

Faith is a cognitive illness disguise as a moral virtue. - Peter Boghossian

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. - Lloyd Auerbach

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Prayers

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If God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. - Tom Robbins

You should never trust a person who prays in public. - Stephen King

If you just sit around praying, nothing gets done. - Nora Roberts

Prayer is the stimulant of the feeble. - Abraham Miller

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. - Amit Ray

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God

I really do not believe that there is a god. I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. People will then often say, "But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?" This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams

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Many deeds are enacted in God's name which fill the Devil's heart with envy. - Abraham Miller

The existence of the world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell. - Armand Salacrou

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. - Charles Baudelaire

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott

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Churches

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Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, but few go there to worship God. - Proverb

Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel. - Richard Bancroft

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light houses are more helpful than churches. - Benjamin Franklin

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Christianity

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the bible. - Mark Twain

The greatest crime in fundamentalist Christianity is to think. - Unknown

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried. - Henry Parry Liddon

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. - Friedrich Nietzsche

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect of church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Bible

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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of [another]. - Harper Lee

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. - Aleister Crowley

Someone ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Proffessors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not, because they would be defeated. Editors dare not, they would lose their subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. - Robert G Ingersoll

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