"The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society."

Society, Conflict, Communication, Truth

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"The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society."

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"Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world."

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"We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper."

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"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."

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"It is always now."

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"We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present."

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"Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering."

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