Against logic there is no armor like ignorance
—Laurence J Peter (via anarchyofthemind)
(Source: absurdreasoning)
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via changingperspective)
(via absurdreasoning)
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
—Carl Sagan (via vocal-static)
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
—Zora Neale Hurston
(Source: revolutionwithin)
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.
—Osho (via anarchyofthemind)
(Source: absurdreasoning)
A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism. This is, indeed, already happening, and it is curious to note that, for lack of the mystical element, both trends fall back on the Bible as their basic inspiration—and it has always truck me that Biblical idolatry is one of the most depressing and sterile fixations of the religious mind.
—Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (via zurik)
(via absurdreasoning)
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (via ageofreason)
There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.
—Diarmaid Macculloch, Christianity, The First Three Thousand Years (via sanateo)
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
— Scott Adams (via gcapet) (via sanateo)
