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  • If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. H. Almaas Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Reading Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Cat Quotes , Mind Quotes