Buddha had said:Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to beli...
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.
The strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.
Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?
The term ‘atheist,’ Kirsch continued, should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘nonastrologer’ or a ‘nonalchemist.’ We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is sti...
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is...
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.
So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.
She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers.They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, af...
Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just sea...
Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally
For the human brain, Edmond explained, any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very...
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible...
Even the iconoclastic poet William Blake hinted that we should read between the lines. Langdon was familiar with the verse: BOTH READ THE BIBLE DAY AND NIGHT, BUT THOU READ BLACK WHERE I READ WHITE.
Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by...