"Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.”
“The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.”
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“It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.”
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