Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are

Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To such a one, God is direct and spontaneous, providing him with an immediate source of guidance and direction. His relationship with God is not mediated through anyone or anything. 104

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Prem Prakash,

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there. – Richard

I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

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Richard Dawkins,

The God Delusion

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths and just stopped thinking.

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Robert Anton Wilson

No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function

No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint . What s more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools.

Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only tools we truly possess in life.

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H. E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

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Rene Daumal

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume – something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it’s difficult to call books a ‘mass medium.’ No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.

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Chuck Palahniuk,

Haunted

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you’re certain it’s the wrong road and you tell them, but they won’t listen, so you just

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you’re certain it’s the wrong road and you tell them, but they won’t listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea

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James Hilton,

Random Harvest

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air. – Cecelia

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

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Cecelia Ahern

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won t complain. –

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what’s dead. It won t complain.

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Jeanette Winterson,

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit