Aanhalings

"The Christian of tomorrow will be a mystic, or not a Christian at all." – Karl Rahner

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." – Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science." – Albert Einstein

"The new path must be one that leads to spiritual wisdom on a road paved by scientific knowledge." – Bernard Haisch

"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet." – Werner Heisenberg

"The idea of Original Sin runs counter to everything science tells us, from anthropology through zoology. It is contrary to the teaching of Jesus, the Bible, common sense, experience and morality." – John Hunt

"The logic is inevitable. If there's no original sin then no savior is needed, no sacrifice by God to save humankind, no need for a literal resurrection. Conservatives are right in that once you start to pick the thread it all unravels." – John Hunt

"Why? And how is it that, in Christianity in particular, the Church ended up with its heart outside history altogether and lost in the world of myth? The answer lies in the Grand Narrative of cosmic fall and redemption which Christianity developed and to which it remains firmly attached." – Don Cupitt

"The time has come when the teachings of Christ can be interpreted in their fullest significance ... Science must see beyond matter and acknowledge a spiritual perspective; religion must stop ignoring the fundamental laws of matter. Only in this way will both sides (science and religion) come together and learn to lean on each other. As a result religion will no longer be discredited by science. Its accordance with reason and with the compelling logic of the events of nature will give religion a new vision." – Allan Kardec

"In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason." – Johannes Kepler

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." – Carl Sagan

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." – Carl Sagan

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." – Carl Sagan

"Anything you don't understand, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." – Carl Sagan

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." – Robert Pirsig

"The faith that I am calling into question is precisely the gesture that theologian Paul Tillich himself decried as 'an act of knowledge that has a low degree of evidence' ... the truth is that religious faith is simply unjustified belief in matters of ultimate concern." – Sam Harris

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." – Christopher Hitchen

"Scientific theories undergo wholesale revision with each generation and therefore do not converge on the truth." – Thomas Kuhn

"During the week he lives in the rationalistic, scientific and economic reality of the Western tradition, while Sunday he spends some time with Job, with the result that on Monday he finds himself on the psychiatrist's couch." – Joseph Campbell

"The life of a mythology derives from the vitality of its symbols as metaphors delivering, not simply the idea, but a sense of actual participation in such a realization of transcendence, infinity, and abundance. Indeed, the first and most essential service of a mythology is this one, of opening the mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being. And the second service, then, is cosmological: of representing the universe and whole spectacle of nature, both as known to the mind and as beheld by the eye, as an epiphany of such kind that when lightning flashes, or a setting sun ignites the sky, or a deer is seen standing alert, the exclamation 'AH!' may be uttered as a recognition of divinity." – Joseph Campbell

"We actually evolved over 14 billion years of evolution: matter arose with the Big Bang, sensation with the first life forms, impulse with the first reptiles, emotion with the first mammals, symbols with the first primates, concepts with the first humans..." – Ken Wilber

"Spirituality, according to the testimony of the world's great yogis, saints, and sages has to do with the direct experience of a living Reality, disclosed immediately and intimately in the heart and consciousness of individuals, and fostered by diligent, sincere, prolonged spiritual practice. All practice open one to a direct experience of Spirit, and not merely beliefs or ideas about Spirit." – Ken Wilber

"Evolution proceeds by differentiation and integration, or just as well, by transcendence and inclusion. Each stage includes its predecessors, then adds its own defining and emergent qualities: it transcends and includes." – Ken Wilber

"Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence." – Anthony de Mello

"Who's living in you? It's pretty horrifying when you come to know that. You think you are free, but there probably isn't a gesture, a thought, an emotion, an attitude, a belief in you that isn't from someone else. Isn't that horrible? And you don't know it. Talk about a mechanical life that was stamped on you. You feel pretty strongly about certain things, and you think it is you who are feeling strongly about them, but are you really? It's going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call 'self' is simply a conglomeration of your past experiences, of your conditioning and programming." – Anthony de Mello

"Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate." – Thomas Della Peruta

"There is no such thing as a 'Muslim child' or a 'Catholic child', parents and teachers practice religious indoctrination of children. It's a form of mental abuse." – Richard Dawkins

"Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it." – Steven Covey

"There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. All things are created twice." –Stephen Covey

"Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true." – Eckhart Tolle

"The master is just like everyone else, except that he no longer believes that in this moment things should be different than they are. Therefore in all circumstances he remains at ease in the world, is efficient without the slightest effort, keeps his lightness of heart whatever happens, and, without intending to, acts with kindness toward himself and everyone else. He is who you are once you meet your mind with understanding." – Stephen Mitchell

"Stop forcing life to be the way you want it to be, rather accept and let it be the way it is." – Byron Katie

"Only that day dawns to which we are fully awake." – Henry David Thoreau

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." – Melody Beattie

"Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." – Lao Tzu

"The trouble is that our psychological theories are too small to contain our reality." – William James

"The true story of consciousness has not been written, for it will always in essence escape such description." – Jane Roberts

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..." – William Shakespeare

"Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide." – Carl Gustav Jung

"The purpose of life is to realize the Self." – Carl Gustav Jung

"I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding God better." – Vincent van Gogh

"We should always have full presence of mind in whatever we may do – in going out, or coming in, in looking with the eyes, in bending or stretching an arm. In eating, drinking, standing or sleeping, in talking or being silent – whatever we are doing. Awake in the present!" – Gautama Buddha

"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." – Spencer Johnson

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." – Mark Twain

"We tell lies when we are afraid ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger." – Tad Williams

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it, take with you your all." – Kahlil Gibran

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." – Marcus Aurelius

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