Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
-Henry David Thoreau
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
The irony is, even the countries who embraced Buddha were no less a wonder.
Buddha didn't believe in the concept of God. He was against every kind of
worship... But they also made him a God and worshipped him... Who cares
how terribly it hurts Buddha?
-Deep Trivedi
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically…Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
Human beings protect the purity of manmade temples. Similarly, looking after the sanctity of this human body, a temple created by God, should become a spiritual endeavour that is of utmost importance.
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.