Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle....
Tag: religion
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved… [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical....
Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was...
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God
Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect....
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Nectar of Devotion
Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:”It has been stated, ‘although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition....
Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it....
Anne Carson, Decreation
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem....
Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there’s nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?...
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
According to the Buddha’s teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him ‘What is the beginning...
Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of...
