Prayers

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Nature is impartial; it cannot be flattered by prayers. It does not grant any special favours on request. - Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words, one can alter Nature. - Francois Voltaire

If you pray for rain long enough, it does eventually fall. If you pray for flood-waters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. - Steve Allen

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! - Henry Ward Longfellow

The greatest prayer is patience. - The Buddha

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God

For anyone who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him. - Albert Einstein

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

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Christianity

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. - James Madison

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You see, we're all born sinful except for Jesus who was perfect, of course. And he was sent to save us. But how could he save us unless we're sinning? So we have to go on sinning in order to be saved and go to Heaven. That's how Christianity works. That's why it suits so many people. - Charlie McManus

Why do Christians take everything so personally with Christ, ya know? It's like not only do you have to worship him, you want everybody to. It's like, I like lobster. Do I go around pushing lobster on people? Do I say "You must like lobster. Eat lobster, it's good, it's good!" It's not only where you live, you go to Africa, you travel all over the world, "Eat lobster! Have some more lobster, it's good." - Larry David

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Atheism

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

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I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case. - Christopher Hitchens

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power. - Emma Goldman

All thinking men are atheists. - Ernest Hemingway

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov

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Silence / Peace

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In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a 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

Just be silent, utterly silent. Let peace descend over you, and the revelation of the mysterious truth of existence is yours. - Osho

In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence. - Osho

In the Silence is where all the power is. In the Silence is where all the answers are. - Robert Adams

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. - Caroline Myss

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. - Stephen Richards

Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.- Samuel Beckett

For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration. - Bhagavad-Gita Source: Bhagavad-Gita proverb

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The Soul

Soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. Many religious types believe that the soul exists and it outlives physical death. They support the idea of the immortality of the soul. Most scientists contradict the existence of immaterial soul or its survival after death and argue that there is no empirical evidence regarding the soul's existence or survival.

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The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the Universe. - Albert Einstein

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. - C. G. Jung

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. - James Allen

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one. - Hermann Hesse

Your soul always knows what to do to heal your body and your mind. You must listen to your intuition and follow instructions. - Caroline Myss

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity and love. - Thomas Merton

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Awareness

Awareness of your inner and outer world, being conscious through the understanding that as above, so below. When you are aware how you are affecting and being affected through each thought and vibration, you understand the power of intentions and awareness. - Unknown

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When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. When you touch one moment with deep awareness, you touch all moments. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy – it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine. - Osho

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. - M. Scott Peck

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Spiritual Life

The spiritual presence in your life is ever with you, ever available to you and ever reminding you to look beyond your own judgments. It is forever providing for you the support, the assistance and the guidance necessary to minimize the wrong application of your mind and to strengthen the right application of your mind to allow knowledge to arise within you. – Unknown

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If you can become just your own self, if you can blossom into your intrinsic nature, then only you will have blissfulness, a peace which cannot be expressed in words and a certain poetry to your being: a certain dance to your being, because you will be in tune with existence. To be in tune with yourself is the only way to be in tune with existence. - Osho

If you make Joy your priority and tune into this Joy daily through your meditation, not only will you feel deeply connected, but you will have a huge impact on the people and circumstances in your life and in the lives of people you don’t even know. - Gabrielle Berbstein

Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigour, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny. - Krishna

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Mysticism

Mystical experience involves moving beyond normal awareness, through practices that quiet the mind and dissolve identification with the personal ego. 

Mystical pursuits often lead to a radical, positive transformation of the individual, providing deeper meaning to life and the ability to act with greater wisdom and compassion. 

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The task, and joy, of a mystic is to listen for the stirrings of the sacred in the world and the presence of soul. What the mystic seeks to hear is not a message or even a sound. It is something more subtle and less glamorous. The hearing of a mystic is not really auditory at all but more a deeply focused yet widely extended attentiveness. - Unknown

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behaviour means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing – a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. - Ken Wilber

I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. - David Bohm

To no longer resist the present is to see that there is nothing but the present - no beginning, no end, nothing behind it, nothing in front of it. When the past of memory and the future of anticipation are both seen to be present facts, then the slats to this present collapse. The boundaries around this moment fall into this moment, and then there is nothing but this moment, with nowhere else to go. - Ken Wilber

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Zen

Zen developed in China as Chan Buddhism, blending Indian Mahayana Buddhist philosophies with Chinese Taoist thought. 

Zen uses art, koans, and storytelling to provide direct insight, bypassing philosophical constructs and the limitations of language. 

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We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature. - David Fontana

The most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. If you start to practice zazen (meditation), you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki

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Tao - The Way of Nature

The Tao provides a framework for understanding the world and living a life that is in tune with the natural order, promoting qualities like simplicity, spontaneity, and a sense of interconnectedness.

While the Tao is a central concept in Taoism, it’s not a deity or god in the traditional sense. Taoists often see it as the source of all things, but not a being that is worshipped or prayed to.

In essence, the Tao represents the inherent order, energy, and way of the universe, and living in accordance with it is a key principle in Taoism.

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The ‘You’ who you think you are does not exist. - Alan Watts

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers. - Rabindranath Tagor

Good and evil are typified by light and darkness; therefore, if we bring light into a dark room, the darkness disappears, and inasmuch as a soul is filled with good, evil disappears. - Aurelia Mace

Be aware of the ephemeral nature of material things. Lose your attachment to them. - Shui-ch'ing Tzu

The wise employ their mind as a mirror. Grasp nothing. Refuse nothing. Receive, but do not keep. - Chuang-Tzu

A sage knows by intuitive wisdom, not limited by what he sees and hears only. In the whole universe, there is nothing that is not me. - Zhang Dai

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. - Unknown

The whole world is you. Yet, you keep thinking there is something else. - Hsueh Feng

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Chi / Energy

The will is the commander of Chi. Chi is the totality of the body. - Mencius
Explanation:
Our will power can control the flow of energy. When we think of a certain organ or area of our body, energy will flow to that part. Energy is the basic ingredient of our whole body. All our organs, tissues and cells as well as all our physiological functions and metal activities are the products of energy.

As with all things in Nature, there are two polarities to this energy – positive energy and negative energy. When the energies are balanced, and flowing smoothly through our body, we experience general good health and well-being. When they are unbalanced, we will experience variations in our emotions. If the positive energy is stronger, we will feel peaceful, happy, blissful, excited... If the negative energy is stronger, we will feel sad, depress, distress…

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The smooth, balanced flow of chi – your life-force energy – is the single most important determinant to your health, vitality and happiness. - Bruce Frantzis

When the energy is open, smooth and unbound, it will go towards the creative and positive. - Unknown

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The Universe Is Indifferent

The universe is neither good nor evil; rather both moral extremes exist within it. It is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

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The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or bad; it just keeps flowing. Some people go down to the river and they cry. Some people go down to the river and they are happy, but the river doesn't care; it just keeps flowing. We can use it and enjoy it, or we can jump in and drown. The river just keeps flowing because it is impersonal, and so it is with the universe. The universe that we live in can support us or destroy us. It's our interpretation and use of the laws that determine our effects or results. - Robert Anthony

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. - Stanley Kubrick 

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications. - Buzz Aldrin

The universe has no favourites; it is supremely just, and gives to every man his rightful earnings. - James Allen

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse – there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next. - Jeanette Winterson

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Science

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

The growing knowledge of science does not refute man's intuition of the mystical. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or in time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvellous it becomes. - Charles Lindbergh

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress. - Lisa Randall

Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The beauty of science far outweighs the charm of superstition. - Christopher Hitchens

Science is corrosive to religious belief. - Steven Weinberg

Without science, everything is a miracle. - Lawrence M. Krauss

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