The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown

Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made famous by Upton Sinclair. Fear of death is the father of religion.

The question was, without compare, the greatest mystery of life…the secret we all longed to know. Ironically, the elusive answer was revealed to each of us eventually…but with no way back to share it.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us “universe”… He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us.