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Belief Quotes
"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
"Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance."
"When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished."
"Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be."
"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!"
"Forget the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Granth Sahib, and all the scriptures in the world. None of them will show you the Great Eternal Truth. None of them will show you the Kingdom of God, for the real Kingdom of the Ultimate Truth is inside your mind. It was born in you when you were born. And it will cease to exist when you die. Your mind is not merely the vehicle of God, rather it is the life-force that keeps God alive. Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
"Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down."
"A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles."
"This whole world is running solely on the foundation of 'wrong belief'. Why is there suffering in the world? It is because one has acquired the 'wrong belief'. With the 'right belief', there is no suffering at all."
"Beliefs are the umbrella that we use to protect ourselves on rainy days."
"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
"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."
"Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist."
"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."
"I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind."
"If you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all."
"Believing is half the cure."
"Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism."
"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)."
"Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!"
"I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief."
"There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened."
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