posted May 26, 2008 12:57 PM            

Wear it out."

~James Arthur Ray

"Spiritual escapism is just as pathological as material escapism."

"Buddism says 'the middle path'."

"The harmony of the opposites..."
"The challenges we face..."
"It's all the same energy..."
"Everything comes from God..."
"Same conversation, different label..."
"All goals are the same as spiritual goals... to get into a size 6 jean..."
"All goals are spiritual goals..."
"Your spiritual goal is to expand... to grow into the awareness to experience that outcome."

~James

"You can't talk to a man about God whose stomach is empty."
~Gandhi

"What you think about is what you become... that's not true. If that was true, when I was in high school I would have become a busty cheerleader."

"Financial, relational, mental, physical = need all of these things for "wealth" which translates to "well-being"

thought, feeling, action

need all three... might have fabulous thoughts but without action...

1)thinking positively, by itself, doesn't work
need to START there, shifting the thoughts, as step one... but you need the FEELING there as well, the 2)feeling tones that put your body in harmony with that... then you have to put in into 3)action.

You can have grand visions for yourself, but inside be feeling insecure, worried, fear, low self confidence...

1) Inspiration (I "should" work out, "should" do this or that etc, SHOULD is someone else's opinion, you need the Spirit... the motivation/inspiration) so find inspiration that taps into your purpose
Inspiration comes from the Higher Self/God Mind

2) set a clear Intention, not just I have a goal, but I Intend to do this!
clear intention of where you want to go under that inspiration
Intention comes from the conscious mind when we set a specific intention we choose to create.

3) have to keep my Attention on this intention... I mean we know all this... energy flows where attention goes... where we fall short is the attention span... when it comes to creating our attention we are ADD, when it comes to our misery we are OCD, look at the news, putting our attention on things we do not want. Must put our attention on things we want. Most of the things we put our attention on are in our subconscious, taking up our energy and pulling to us the things we do not want. Modern science tells us that our outer world is nothing more than the projection of our our own inner thoughts. The Universe is constantly mirroring back to us what we are and the intentions of our own thoughts.

Relationships are great, they are like the Zen of the western world... because it is really easy to be the Buddha when you are sitting in your living room by yourself.
I've spent times in solitude learning, expanding, then once in a relationship (a living laboratory) I see how much I haven't grown...

Attention is from the unconscious mind

4)Gratitude introduces the "feeling" to the above mental. Gratitude is the most powerful force in the Universe. It's seen as a little foo foo to some people, but when you are grateful, you are really sending out the message that "I am grateful for this, send me more of this." Focusing on what you don't like in a person or even that we "want" a dream mate... the very wanting is focusing on a lack, affirming not having. Sending the feeling tone of I don't have it.
We've all made the lists of qualities we want. (I say make a list of 100 things.) The next step is to write down the initials of 2 or 3 people beside each of those 100 qualities who are already in your life. Like Affectionate... write down 3 people who have the quality, even if it's your mom or brother. There is nothing lacking in your life. Put your attention on that you are grateful that you already have everything you want. 'Energy flows where attention goes.' It can get better, it will get better.

5)Enthusiasm en Theos to be God in physical form, here's the Action, enthusiastically act, already inspired, enthusiastically get up in the morning thinking, my life is grand, and IT IS GETTING GRANDER. "

Can I get an Amen and some Rock On's

~Melody

posted May 26, 2008 12:58 PM            

"Don't ask for easier lives, ask for the skills to glide gracefully through life..."

"People say, wow, you've made it, number 3 on the top author list..." etc etc blah blah blah "but it brings different challenges... writing more checks to my lawyers than I thought I would ever make..." blah blah blah

"We have this illusion that we are going to reach some Nirvanic state where bees don't sting us and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is going to be singing arias all the time. And that's not realistic. What we must do is to have that Harmonic Wealth, that harmony and well-being REGARDLESS OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD. And the bigger the game you play... I mean you've heard it said: Be Careful What You Ask For

**** and you know you've heard that lol can I get a MeL-tallica Amen lol ****

"The bigger the game you play, the bigger the challenges. You cannot play a big game without big challenges."

"And the same is true with relationships, even if you find that soul mate, that perfect partner for you, you still have to negotiate who's going to wash the socks." ~Carol Ann

"You're still going to have your challenges."
~James Ray

"People don't know but the most divorces are in the first 3 years because there is this big let down, Oh, this didn't solve my problems, this person didn't solve my life"
~Carol

"This person is a human being just like me"
~James

"So, absolutely. It really is an opportunity through our mirror, through our external mirror called our mate, to see who we are and how much we've grown. Because the things that **** you off the most about your mate are the things you haven't learned to love about yourself. Hard pill to swallow sometimes, but that's a fact. It's Carl Jung who stated, When an unconscious issue is not made conscious, it shows up outside of us as fate. You see, we are projecting out who and what we are, so your mate, you know the things that aggravate you, that really get under your craw, are the things that are you that you haven't learned to love and embrace yet. Because everyone has every quality."
~James

"And Jesus said: that which is inside of you, dark inside of you, if you don't draw it out, it will destroy you"
~Carol

James' favorite idea/awakening:

"We live in a dualistic world, there is a law of the Universe, one of the 7 Laws of the Universe, called The Law of Polarity. This law states that for every up there's a down, for every in there's an out, for every right there's a wrong, what that means in day to day practicality is that if there is anything that is really really great in your life, there is going to be something that really really sucks. That's polarity/duality, it cannot be changed. Quantum physics tells us that for every positron there is an electron that has a negative charge. If we live in this world and we get the idea that we are going to collect all the quarters in this world and we want only the heads but not the tails. Then we decrease our magnetism."

FYI:
James is a Scorpio. He is one of the guys from "The Secret".
Carol does a radio show called "Enlightening Relationships" on KARMA AIR, which is what I was quoting above, her interview with James.
http://www.karmaair.com/about.aspx

posted May 26, 2008 01:45 PM              

I was drawn to him when i first saw the Secret,
and I explored his website.

His bio is pretty interesting.
And those programs, the weekend intensives, or whatever.

"What you think about is what you become... that's not true. If that was true, when I was in high school I would have become a busty cheerleader."

"Relationships are great, they are like the Zen of the western world... because it is really easy to be the Buddha when you are sitting in your living room by yourself.
I've spent times in solitude learning, expanding, then once in a relationship (a living laboratory) I see how much I haven't grown..."

"We live in a dualistic world, there is a law of the Universe, one of the 7 Laws of the Universe, called The Law of Polarity. This law states that for every up there's a down, for every in there's an out, for every right there's a wrong, what that means in day to day practicality is that if there is anything that is really really great in your life, there is going to be something that really really sucks. That's polarity/duality, it cannot be changed. Quantum physics tells us that for every positron there is an electron that has a negative charge. If we live in this world and we get the idea that we are going to collect all the quarters in this world and we want only the heads but not the tails. Then we decrease our magnetism."

But then, when he says, "it will get better", are we meant to read "it will get worse, too"?

"Don't ask for easier lives, ask for the skills to glide gracefully through life..."

I like this one, too, but doesn't asking imply deprivation and want,
and doesnt he say that this is what will create more deprivation and want?

Perhaps we are to consider that we already have skills enough to be as graceful as we need to be?

posted May 26, 2008 02:40 PM            

We can recognize it and be aware and be grateful with as much fervor as we might recognize we stubbed our toe and the accompanying emotions we might experience in that situation. Just consciously shift our focus to be as grateful of the good things (rather than taking those for granted) as we are annoyed at the difficult or painful things. A step further would be of course to find a way of looking at the painful things as blessings in disguise. I think this is the way to make the shift to invite/attract more blessings into our lives.

I've seen the principals at work in my life, and I think it's absolutely worth some effort.

posted May 27, 2008 10:37 PM              

quote:

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A step further would be of course to find a way of looking at the painful things as blessings in disguise.
I think this is the way to make the shift to invite/attract more blessings into our lives.

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I think it is definitely part of the way, but not necessarily the way.
If we take a dogmatic approach, we invite a state of self-defeating, pseudo-transcendent inertia.
The dialogue with the world must be maintained and the channels openned.
"Going within" can be an excuse for cutting oneself off from the world and the problems of the world.
This is not the form of detatchment that comes from a realization of the truth.

True detachment handles ones reactions without binding ones hands.
This is why the wise man cannot be easily distinguished from the common man.
He takes part in the life of the crowd, and holds a share in the philosophies of all men.
He consents to the logic of all things, before he considers his censure.

All things are blessings in disguise, but darkness must be transmuted,
and no transmutation is complete, until it takes shape in the outer world;
not merely in one's narrowly imagined world, but in the great big real one.
If we are reluctant to take action for fear that our will is still imperfect, we will never take action.
The way to learn to swim is to get in the water; we learn to communicate with the outer world by doing it.
We trust that our words and actions, though imperfect, are relatively good.
In this way, we cannot help but serve the Lord, and by openning ourselves to the world
in various ways, we allow the Spirit to work through us.

A balance must be reached between self-control and self-surrender,
and between withdrawal from the world and participation in human affairs.
By focusing only on ourselves and our own path, we lose touch with other cultures and ways of seeing.
Then, when the outer world encroaches upon our narrow consciousness,
we can only respond in a secret language of our own,
and only interpret things through our narrow understanding.
Such a state would be lonely, for it would seem to us that most others are deaf and mute,
and that only those who speak our language, and keep our words, can truly hear and speak.

When we truly open to the wisdom of life, we see that everyone has things to teach and things to learn.
Determining which lessons belong to us, and which do not, is the business of life.
Often it is the lesson that we seem to be teaching which we really have yet to learn.
Creating reality begins with the raising of unconscious material into consciousness,
and we must be willing to admit every archetype in the universe,
before we endeavor to construct a new one; or we merely reconstruct the old.
What we neglect to admit into our plans, blindsides us from the outside.

In order to write a script, we must be well acquainted with the characters.
We can find them within, or we can encounter them in the world;
either way, there is the danger of seeing with a too-narrow sight,
and attempting to allow this, and reject that, character's point of view from our retelling of the great tale.
Always, we find ourselves taking the side of one against another,
and we become actors in our own imagined dramas.
This is how it must be, but, when playing one's part,
and taking action in the world, we should remember our divine seat.
We must remember that we have written the lines in the other actors' mouths,
and that the way in which we respond must not be routine,
but something arising from our effort to become both teacher and student.

If we seek to go beyond where we have yet to arive,
we fall into the trap of imposing a teaching on the world
which we have yet to learn and understand ourselves.
Creating and manifesting the truth goes hand in hand with learning the truth.
If we believe that our truth is perfect and complete,
we refuse to consider the constant revelations of God's creation.
Living in a supposed future of our own creation,
we ignore the effective materials being set at our feet.
Our plans are continually dashed upon the rocks
until we learn to include God in our plans;
all of God; God cannot be taken in part.

With God as navigator, we do not plow blindly in a straight line,
but we consider the particular dimensions of our environment.
We make maps according to the territory, not according to fancy,
and we sail the high seas; we dont just play with the wheel, while anchored to the dock.
Returning to the dock, without crossing the ocean, is nothing short of cowardice.
What good is a journey back to the source, if you have not returned from a foriegn destination?
How can you create a new world under the nose of the old sovereign,
or among the rubble and found artifacts of the past?

posted May 30, 2008 12:27 AM            

mmmm wow complexly profound
And if we need to take too much time determining if the lesson belongs to us... that is probably a clue that the lesson does apply to us.

"must be willing to admit every archetype in the universe"
"In order to write a script, we must be well acquainted with the characters."

What a perfect way to express that truth.

"This is how it must be, but, when playing one's part,
and taking action in the world, we should remember our divine seat."

"Creating and manifesting the truth goes hand in hand with learning the truth."

Yes, we teach what we have learned and what we are still learning. We have the power to create more of a truth once it becomes a part of us.

posted May 30, 2008 12:31 AM            

"We become actors in our own imagined dramas.
This is how it must be, but, when playing one's part, and taking action in the world, we should remember our divine seat."
~S.W.C.

posted May 30, 2008 05:48 PM              

There are Sweets of Pathos, when Sweets of Mirth have passed away --
~ Emily Dickinson

posted May 30, 2008 09:38 PM              

There are three forms of mystical experience: the experience of union with Nature, that of union with the transcendental human Self, and that of union with God. The first kind of experience is that of the obliteration of the differentiation between the individual's psychic life and surrounding Nature. It is this which Levy Bruhl calls "mystical participation", which notion he coined whilst studying the psychology of primitive peoples. This notion designates the state of consciousness where the separation between the conscious subject and the object of the outside world disappears, and where subject and object become one. This kind of experience underlies not only shamanism and the totemism of the primitives but also the so-called "mythogenous" consciousness, which is the source of natural myths, as well as the ardent desire or poets and philosophers for union with Nature (e.g. Empedocles threw himself into the crater of the volcano on Mount Etna in order to unite himself with the elements of Nature). The effect of peyote, mescaline, hashish, alcohol, etc., can sometimes (but not always, and not with everyone) produce states of consciousness analogous to that of "mystical participation". The characteristic trait of this form of experience is intoxication, i.e. the fusion of oneself with forces exterior to one's self-consciousness. The Dionysian orgies of antiquity were based on the experience of "sacred intoxication" due to the obliteration of the differentiation between self and non-self.

The second form of mystical experience is that of the transcendental Self. It consists in separating the ordinary empirical self from the higher Self, which is above all motion and all that which belongs to the domain of space and time. The higher Self is therefore experienced as immortal and free.

If "Nature mysticism" is characterized by intoxication, that of the Self, in contrast, has the characteristic trait of progressively "coming to one's senses", with the aim of complete sobriety. A philosophy based on the mystical experience of the Self, which represents it in the purest way and is least distorted by the addition of hazardous intellectual speculations, is that of the Indian school of Sankya. There the individual purusha is experienced in its separation from prakriti (i.e. all movement, space and time) as immortal and free. Although the same experience is found at the basis of Vedanta philosophy, its followers are not satisfied with the immediate experience which teaches nothing more, and nothing less, than that the true self of man is immortal and free, but they add the postulate that the higher Self is God ("this soul is God" -- "ayam atma brahma", Mandukya Upanishad, 2). The Sankya philosophy, in contrast, remains within the limits of the experience of the higher Self as such and in no way denies the plurality of purushas (i.e. the plurality of immortal and free higher Egos), nor does it raise the individual purusha to the dignity of the Absolute -- Which has resulted in it being considered an atheistic philosophy. It is so, if one understands by "atheist" the frank confession: I have not had experience of anything higher than the immortal and free Ego; abiding by the experience, what can I say in good faith? Sankya is not a religion and therefore does not merit being classified as "atheistic" any more than, for example, the modern psychological school of Jung does. On the other hand, can it be considered as proof of belief in God to attribute to the higher Self of man the dignity of the Absolute?

The third sort of mystical experience is that of the living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the God of St. Augusting, St. Francis, St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross in the Christian tradition, the God of the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramanuja, Madhva and Caitanya in the Hindu tradition. Here it is a matter of union with God in love, which implies a substantial duality being essentially at one.

This experience has as its principal characteristic trait the synthesis of the intoxication of Nature mysticism and the sobriety of mysticism of the higher Self. The term coined by tradition to express the state where ardent enthusiasm and profound peace manifest themselves simultaneously is that of "beatitude", or "beatific vision" (i.e. beatitudo, or visio beatifica). Beatific vision implies the duality of the seer and the seen, on the one hand, and their union or instrinsic oneness in love, on the other hand. This is why this term expresses in a wonderfully clear and precise way the essence of the theistic mystical experience: the meeting fo the soul with God, face to face, in love. And this experience is all the more elevated the more complete the differentiation is, and the more perfect the union is. For this reason the Holy Cabbala puts at the centre of spiritual experience that of the Holy Face (arich anphin) of the Ancient of Days, and this is also why it teaches that the supreme experience of the human being -- as well as the highest form of death for a mortal -- is attained when God embraces the human soul. This is what the Sepher Yetzirah says:

And after that our father Abraham had perceived, and understood, and had taken down and engraved all these things, the Lord most high (adon hakol) revealed His beloved, and made a Covenant with him and his seed...
(Sepher Yetzirah vi, 4; trsl. W. Wynn Westcott, London, 1893, pp. 26-27)

And St. John of the Cross spoke of his experiences of the divine Presence in the tabernacles of love only in the language of love.

The three forms of mystical experience have their "hygenic laws", or their "tabernacles" or "skins". They fall under the law of temerence or measure. Otherwise the rage of acute mania, megalomania and complete alienation from the world menace, respectively, their adepts. The breast-plate, the canopy and the crown are the three symbols for the salutary measures pertaining to the domains of experience of Nature mysticism, human mysticism, and divine mysticism.

Now, the "triumpher" of the seventh Arcanum wears a breast-plate, stands under a canopy and is crowned. This is why he does not lose himself in Nature, why he does not lose God in the experience of his higher Self and why he does not lose the world in experiencing the love of God. He holds in check the dangers of rage, megalomania and exaltation. He is sane.

posted June 06, 2008 02:23 AM              

2 Suffer the little children to come unto me. ~ Jesus

3 Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ~ Victor Hugo

4 Don't expect me to cry. ~ the Vaselines ('Jesus dont want me for a sunbeam')

5 Don't weep for me. I'm already dead. ~ Barney Gumble

6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqTpWmj6-_Q

7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2v-r8-CiQ

8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8Jn1JvtdE

9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw

10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA3UnaKpe4E

12 http://youtube.com/watch?v=YobuN4b4X9Y

posted June 07, 2008 11:32 AM              

He who would save the world
Must share its pain.

The day-bringer
Must walk
In darkest night.

None can reach heaven
Who has not
Passed through hell.

Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls.

He Who Chooses The Infinite
Has Been Chosen by the Infinite

posted June 07, 2008 11:40 AM              

'He longed to be the wind and blow through your rustling branches,
to be your shadow and legthen with the day on the water,
to be a bird and perch on your topmost twig,
and to float like those ducks among the weeds and shadows.'

'The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom - of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith - that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.'

'Men going home glance at me and smile and fill me with shame.
I sit like a beggar maid, drawing my skirt over my face,
and when they ask me, what it is I want, I drop my eyes and answer them not.'

'Many an hour I have spent in the strife of the good and the evil,
but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him;
and I know not why this sudden call to what useless inconsequence.'

posted June 08, 2008 02:54 PM              

~ Sarah Williams (1868)

posted June 09, 2008 04:27 PM            

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represents a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
- Anton Chekhov

posted June 10, 2008 01:38 AM              

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
-- Eric Fromm

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

When your heart speaks, take good notes.
-- Judith Campbell

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
-- Robert A. Heinlein

When two people understand each other in their innermost hearts, their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
-- I Ching

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blowsout the candle and blows up the bonfire.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
-- Marie Dressler

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
-- Euripides

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
-- Khalil Gibran

I hold it true, whatever befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love. People are extremely tender inside, particularly those who act as if they are tough and self-sufficient. And if we'll listen to them with the third ear, the heart, they'll tell us so. We can gain even more by showing love, particularly unconditional love, as this gives people a sense of intrinsic worth and security unrelated to conforming behavior or comparisons with others. Many borrow their security and strength from external appearances, status symbols, positions, achievements and associations. But borrowing strength inevitably builds weakness. We all distrust superficial human relations techniques and manipulative success formulas that are separated from sincere love.
-- Stephen R. Covey

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
-- Francois Sagan

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love
-- Thomas Szasz

The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
-- Deepak Chopra

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
-- Leanna L. Bartram

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- St. Francis De Sales

posted June 10, 2008 01:44 AM              

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"Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us."

"Once respect is lost, even love is not tasty."

"The sign of enlightenment is no complaints and no explanations!"
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (this, and the previous two).

"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
(Kant's supreme moral principle or "categorical imperative")

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
(According to Kenny, and [of course?] I agree, Kant "asked the question[s]" that marked the beginning of the stage change from metaphysics to post-metaphysics)

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe— the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." (often misattributed, this appears on Kant's Tomb)
Immanuel Kant (this, and the previous three).

"The whole problem of the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
and wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell

"There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection."
Mevlana Rumi

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."

"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
Ray bradbury (this, and the previous one).

"Be yourself. The universe will give you feedback."
Genpo Roshi

If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!"

If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."
Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Dakota Tribe.

"When we see men of worth, we should think how we may learn to equal them. When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."

posted June 10, 2008 01:46 AM              

"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering."

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."

"Belief gets in the way of learning." (Which spawned the folk wisdom,"The main impediment to learning is knowing.")

"History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion - i.e., none to speak of."

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

"If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic', examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!"

"The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil 'miracles'. I prefer the Real McCoy—a pregnant woman." !

"Goodness without wisdom always accomplished evil."
Robert A. Heinlein (this, and the previous eight).