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The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.

Even though I scoffed at the use of alcohol or recreational drugs as coping mechanisms for the pains of the world; in the David and Goliath battle of me against the globe, these pills are the armour that allow me to gallantly storm the ramparts of society.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are reduced from what man dreads: isolation

Sometimes our spiritual programs take us far away from our inner belonging. We become addicted to the methods and programs of psychology and religion. We become so desperate to learn how to be, that our lives pass, and we neglect the practice of being.

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

Seasons change and people's minds change. Every person's stance in life is fragile and is prone to shifting based on where their future is.

What people don't understand about other people -and when malevolent don't want to understand- is that a moment is not a lifetime and everyone can transform to their best self if they have the appropriate resources.

... the decisions you make are your decisions. And without checking in with yourself and what you want or need, you’ll find that you start doing your work and living your life for everyone but yourself. That’s not productive, it’s not sustainable, and it’s certainly not fulfilling.

Maybe there are some people you can’t unlove no matter how hard you try. Maybe there are some people you stay connected to, because they’ve hurt you to your very core. You keep hoping that somehow the pain can be resolved if they finally do the right thing, but the right thing can never be done because it had to have been done in the past.

If you are going to be an experiment, be your own.

Sometimes you have to go back to the beginning to see how you want your story to end.

Goals are meant for today. Dreams are meant for tomorrow.

...the progress is in the process. The growth is in the doing, and the success is in the longevity.

Success is often experienced through the absence of a past sensation rather than the presence of a new one.

The biggest thing holding you back is almost always ... you. Start there.

Nothing – I repeat – nothing can become so big an obstruction in your path that you cannot overcome it, for your brain is the most divine and most godly Turing Machine of all times, capable of deeds that humanity is yet to encounter.