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Belief Quotes
"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
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"Truth is in all our hearts. He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God."
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"It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams are in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself, you have what it takes to weave your success!"
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"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
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"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person's development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person's religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger."
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"The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble."
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"If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but notbelieved; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God."
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"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed-thereafter, their lives could only get better."
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"In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns."
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"Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind."
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"He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. Of course, he didn't believe in them. He'd told them, because the handing on of an oral mythology was very important to a developing culture, but he didn't believe in supernatural monsters. He shivered. He hoped they didn't believe in him."
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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."
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"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
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"The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love."
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"There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe."
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"Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be."
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"It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.The people down here just ate that up!"
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"Common people tend to term any kind of bizarre phenomenon as "paranormal or "supernatural. They often exaggerate it as the work of the Gods. Behind this belief is nothing but primitive ignorance. Social progress means that people must (a necessity, not a luxury) align their beliefs and behavior to new knowledge and understanding of nature."
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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
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"The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe, the theist believes a 'who' created the universe."
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"If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one"probably a child"who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home."
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"If you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all."
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"The one who has enlightened view (right belief; samkiti), he indeed does not have any problems, anywhere. He remains only the Knower-Seer everywhere. As long as there is any problem or objection, it cannot indeed be called samkit (enlightened view, right belief)."
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"The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself."
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