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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.
You cannot go to the Father by denying the Mother.
As the man prepared to cut the throat
of the little goat,
the goat laughed.
When asked why, he said that after 499
lives as a goat he would now graduate
to human birth.
Then he began to cry. When asked
why, he said I cry for you.. for I once
also was a high priest sacrificing
goats.. and for that was condemned
to 499 lives as a goat
(paraphrased from THE LITTLE BUDDHA).
Saints are nonsectarian and are contained in a network
of inner power. God and his saints are one.
A man met a lad weeping. What do you weep for? he asked.
I am weeping for my sins, said the lad.
You must have little to do, said the man.
The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. Why do you weep now? asked the man.
I am weeping because I have nothing to eat, said the lad.
I thought it would come to that, said the man.
Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.