The Grand Delusion Quotes

“Clinging to any entity—including self, other, cat, or God—puts us into a conceptual prison. This is true of all beliefs, all grasped concepts. They all obstruct true Religious Experience—direct experience of Reality.”
― Steve Hagen, The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe

“As useful as science is, it will never provide a way for us to wake up to Ultimate Reality. Science remains forever in the conceptual. It wouldn't be science otherwise. This isn't a criticism. It's a necessary and unavoidable limitation.”
― Steve Hagen, The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe

“There is no Mystery. You already know Reality. You only need to stop talking to yourself, and learn to wordlessly pay attention.”
― Steve Hagen, The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe

“All sorts of perplexing phenomena clear up when we abandon our deeply entrenched substantialist view.”
― Steve Hagen, The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe

“Don't worry about figuring out anything. It is not necessary to figure anything out, or to theorize, or even look "out there." You need only to look at your assumptions, your unexamined beliefs.”
― Steve Hagen, The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe