Faith
Expect To Grow Spiritually.
“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.” ~ Eileen Caddy Expect to grow spiritually. With this one phrase Caddy has taken what might otherwise have drifted away as the height of new age delusion – and injected it with the rock-hard solid…
Read MoreBeing Normal: Overrated and Arguably Impossible.
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” ~ Thomas Moore Disengage from the dominant tendency. Just disengage. We could say, ‘there is no normal’; and for sure that is to a large extent true, and the great majority of what I want to say here. On the other hand, abstractions…
Read MoreSelf-Love, Being Your Own Best Friend – And All This In A Non-Creepy Way
“Lift up the self by the SelfAnd don’t let the self droop down,For the Self is the self’s only friendAnd the self is the Self’s only foe.” ~ Bhagavad Gita 6:5 A mindf**k, maybe, nevertheless true. So, we must find a way to pick ourselves up. And a way to stop laying ourselves flat, kicking ourselves when we’re…
Read MoreThe Idea That Faith Is Stupid
“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.” ~ Bill Maher, Religulous The idea that faith is stupid…
Read MoreThe Irony Of Religion
“The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.” Bill Maher, Religulous As a Buddhist sage once said to Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman: ‘To every man is given the key…
Read More