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> [“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lahiri-mahasaya/solve-all-your-problems-through-meditation-exchange-unprofitable-2/)

[Lahiri Mahasaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lahiri-mahasaya/)

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> [''If religion says that God is love, and why shouldn't two men be married.'' ''These rules were made my a God who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/if-religion-says-that-god-is-love-and-why-shouldn-t-two-men-be/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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> [For years I bore the crippling weight of anger, bitterness and resentment toward those who caused my suffering. Yet as I look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phan-thi-kim-phuc/for-years-i-bore-the-crippling-weight-of-anger-bitterness-and/)

[Phan Thi Kim Phuc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phan-thi-kim-phuc/)

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> [“For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-breen/for-many-churches-as-they-seek-to-create-comfortable-environments-in/)

[Mike Breen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-breen/)

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> [“Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-whitall-smith/most-christians-are-like-a-man-who-was-toiling-along-the-road-bending/)

[Hannah Whitall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-whitall-smith/)

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> [Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-novella/creationists-argue-that-natural-selection-is-only-a-negative-process/)

[Steven Novella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-novella/)

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> [If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-brown/if-you-ask-three-people-what-it-means-to-be-christian-you-will-get/)

[Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-brown/)

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> [“In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamim-ansary/in-short-this-or-that-behavior-wasn-t-good-because-scripture-said-so/)

[Tamim Ansary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamim-ansary/)

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> [Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-derrickson/corporate-america-limits-the-world-to-consumerism-science-can-limit/)

[Scott Derrickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-derrickson/)

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> [No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/no-armies-are-needed-no-weapons-are-needed-no-nations-are-needed-no/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-real-security-of-christianity-is-to-be-found-in-its-benevolent/)

[Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/)

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> [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely-2/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-always-felt-that-organized-religion-was-just-basically-a/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-colson/the-bible-banned-burned-beloved-more-widely-read-more-frequently/)

[Charles Colson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-colson/)

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> [The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-of-sarov/the-reading-of-the-word-of-god-should-be-performed-in-solitude-in/)

[Seraphim of Sarov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-of-sarov/)

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> [The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/armin-mohler/the-old-structure-of-the-west-as-a-synthesis-of-classical-culture/)

[Armin Mohler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/armin-mohler/)

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> [“The Church is a place where human beings have the conviction to patiently seek the truth together, in a shared life of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-joseph-white/the-church-is-a-place-where-human-beings-have-the-conviction-to/)

[Thomas Joseph White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-joseph-white/)

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> [“The Ohlones seem to have lived at a time and in a spiritual place before the imagination was cast away and isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-margolin/the-ohlones-seem-to-have-lived-at-a-time-and-in-a-spiritual-place/)

[Malcolm Margolin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-margolin/)

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> [“In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-vernon-mcgee/in-the-gospels-the-emphasis-is-on-the-death-of-christ-in-the-epistles/)

[J. Vernon McGee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-vernon-mcgee/)

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> [My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallas-willard/my-hope-is-to-gain-a-fresh-hearing-for-jesus-especially-among-those/)

[Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallas-willard/)

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> [“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/ultimately-loneliness-is-not-the-experience-of-lacking-but-the/)

[Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/)

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> [Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-the-great/christianity-is-an-old-metaphysical-fiction-stuffed-with-fables/)

[Frederick The Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-the-great/)

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> [“Everybody had one thing in common: we were all taught to hate Israel and the Jews. In the universal hatred that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigitte-gabriel/everybody-had-one-thing-in-common-we-were-all-taught-to-hate-israel/)

[Brigitte Gabriel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigitte-gabriel/)

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> [“He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gaddis/he-stood-there-unsteady-in-the-cold-mumbling-syllables-which-almost/)

[William Gaddis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gaddis/)

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> [Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/religion-comes-from-the-period-of-human-prehistory-where-nobody-not/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [When we think of training ourselves in godliness, we usually think of the traditional spiritual disciplines, but it can also be practical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-boa/when-we-think-of-training-ourselves-in-godliness-we-usually-think-of/)

[Kenneth Boa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-boa/)

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> [ “Here we are \[at BYU\] doing what is not done in any other major university of which I am aware. We are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/here-we-are-at-byu-doing-what-is-not-done-in-any-other-major/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [“Eastwood nodded. “So, like I said, the guy in the fur suit was an Atavist. They channel the power of a primal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-r-underwood/eastwood-nodded-so-like-i-said-the-guy-in-the-fur-suit-was-an-atavist/)

[Michael R. Underwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-r-underwood/)

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> [“I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-hanson-lasater/i-came-to-understand-that-belief-is-a-preconception-about-the-way/)

[Judith Hanson Lasater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-hanson-lasater/)

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> [When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/when-one-person-is-struck-by-the-word-he-speaks-it-to-others-god-has/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-muller/through-faith-in-the-lord-jesus-alone-can-we-obtain-forgiveness-of/)

[George Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-muller/)

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> [...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-kronstadt/when-seeking-material-light-remember-the-spiritual-light-which-is/)

[John of Kronstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-kronstadt/)

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> [“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/it-s-one-thing-to-forbid-the-worship-of-a-god-and-another-to-command/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

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> [“\*\*\*Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doug-ten-rose/not-religious-october-31-2017-i-am-an-ordained-lama-of-the-celtic/)

[Doug "Ten" Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doug-ten-rose/)

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> [“The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-katie/the-reason-i-love-rules-and-plans-and-religions-is-that-people-feel/)

[Byron Katie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-katie/)

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> [The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-wakefield/the-message-of-jesus-is-summed-up-partly-in-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)

[Dan Wakefield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-wakefield/)

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> [“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/science-investigates-religion-interprets-science-gives-man-knowledge-4/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/princes-had-so-to-speak-turned-violence-into-a-physical-thing-but-our/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merlin-stone/it-is-difficult-to-grasp-the-immensity-and-significance-of-the/)

[Merlin Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/merlin-stone/)

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> [Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-aurobindo/indian-religion-has-always-felt-that-since-the-minds-the-temperaments/)

[Sri Aurobindo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-aurobindo/)

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                        "text": "''If religion says that God is love, and why shouldn't two men be married.'' ''These rules were made my a God who doesn't really exist.'' ''But anyway how can God love so he made man with free will. ''So this is where I get stuck.'' In the beginning Adam fucked up so we're responsible for his demise and for his stupidity this sounds highly illogical to me.'' ''And then again you gave man the choice so if you gave man a choice then you get pissed off and make ten stupid rules because of the demise of the stupid choice you gave man in the original place.'' ''And the source of humanities demise was the choice you gave them in the first place.'' ''This doesn't sound like love but an attempt to make up a hoax story to control a multitude of a species.'' ''I see war as the soul theme of this bible massive bloodshed.''",
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                        "text": "For years I bore the crippling weight of anger, bitterness and resentment toward those who caused my suffering. Yet as I look back over a spiritual journey that has spanned more than three decades, I realize the same bombs that caused so much pain and suffering also brought me to a place of great healing. Those bombs led me to Jesus Christ.",
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                        "text": "Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.",
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                        "text": "If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.",
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                        "text": "Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do.",
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                        "text": "No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.",
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                        "text": "The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.",
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                        "text": "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit.",
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                        "text": "I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.",
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                        "text": "“The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it is more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints. Pieced together scraps of Scripture have converted whole whole villages of pagan Indians.”",
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                        "text": "The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might be plunged into the truths of the Holy Scripture, and that from this he might receive warmth, which in solitude produces tears; from these a man is wholly warmed and is filled with spiritual gifts, which rejoice the mind and heart more than any word.",
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                        "text": "Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.",
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                        "text": "Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.",
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                        "text": "When we think of training ourselves in godliness, we usually think of the traditional spiritual disciplines, but it can also be practical activities like taking a nature walk or listening to music - whatever helps us draw closer to God. God hardwired our brains and bodies in such a way that spiritual training, combined with God's work in us, has the very real effect of making us more attuned to spiritual reality and our true identity in Christ.",
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                        "text": "“Here we are [at BYU] doing what is not done in any other major university of which I am aware. We are demonstrating that faith in the Almighty can accompany and enrich scholarship in the secular. It is more than an experiment. It is an accomplishment.”",
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                        "text": "“Eastwood nodded. “So, like I said, the guy in the fur suit was an Atavist. They channel the power of a primal spirit, and for the truly hard-core Furrymancers, it means suits like that. The more they give in to the spirit, the more real their powers become.”",
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                        "text": "“I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it.”",
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                        "text": "When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.",
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                        "text": "...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46).",
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                        "text": "“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan Buddhist teachers, a student of Brahmin/Hindu, Taoist, Wiccan, Animist and other traditions, a daily practitioner of sitting and moving meditations, with earlier roots in Judeo-Christian mysticism. I have recently faced enough folks remarking about what a “religious” person I am that it warrants a response. My response is, “Sorry. That’s just not true and pretty close to nonsense.” It is a very understandable mistake, my friends. I appreciate that you mean it as a compliment and I love you for the very kind intention. But who I am has somewhere between very little and nothing at all to do with the standard definitions of “religious.” I very highly recommend that you see the Why Celtic Buddhism Is Not A Religion section on the CB Homepage at celticbuddhism.org for clarification. I don’t disparage anyone who is religious (as long as they don’t use their religion as an excuse to kill, subjugate, demean or otherwise hurt anyone!) but for myself, it is not a label that fits. Be well, amigos. Much love, Ten (Lama Tenzin Roisin Dubh) p.s. Buy and read one or both of the two books at this Fearless Puppy website, or at Amazon. I say this for your benefit, not mine.”",
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                        "text": "“The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harmony, and so are you. Not knowing is the only way to understand... Meanings, rules, the whole world of right and wrong, are secondary at best. I understand how some people think they need to live by rules...It's very frightening for them to watch the world unfolding in apparent chaos and not realize that the chaos itself is God in his infinite intelligence.”",
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                        "text": "The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.",
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                        "text": "“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual as the human will it intends to restrict. Under the absolute government of one man, despotism, in order to attack the spirit, crudely struck the body and the spirit escaped free of its blows, rising gloriously above it. But in democratic republics, tyranny does not behave in that manner; it leaves the body alone and goes straight to the spirit. No longer does the master say: “You will think as I do or you will die”; he says: “You are free not to think like me, your life, your property, everything will be untouched but from today you are a pariah among us. You will retain your civic privileges but they will be useless to you, for if you seek the votes of your fellow citizen, they will not grant you them and if you simply seek their esteem, they will pretend to refuse you that too. You will retain your place amongst men but you will lose the rights of mankind. When you approach your fellows, they will shun you like an impure creature; and those who believe in your innocence will be the very people to abandon you lest they be shunned in their turn. Go in peace; I grant you your life but it is a life worse than death.”",
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