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Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God … especially when their gods became threatened.
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Scientists and spiritualists often use different vocabularies to describe the exact same mysteries of the universe. The conflicts are frequently over semantics, not substance.”
“For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”
“Science is the antithesis of faith,” Kirsch continued. “Science, by definition, is the attempt to find physical proof for that which is unknown or not yet defined, and to reject superstition and misperception in favor of observable facts. When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.”
The roads to salvation are many. Forgiveness is not the only path.
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We comfort our physical bodies in hopes our souls will follow.
“As the old adage goes: ‘Men plan, and God laughs.’”
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something!
Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.
It takes only one powerful dark soul to wreak havoc in the world by inspiring spiritual intolerance, nationalism, or loathing in the minds of the vulnerable.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL
I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.”
‘The price of greatness … is responsibility.’”
“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”
“It is not necessary to invoke God to set the universe going. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing.”
Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.
“‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’”
