PURE & TRUE KNOWLEDGE

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with science & reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” ( Lord Bauddha)
“The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction” - Leo Tolstoy

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. ( Albert Einstein ) 

I have a bible. Its letters are stars and its punctuation, planets. It’s written across the night sky in a language that anyone can decipher if they take the time to look up. It’s printed on leaves and in the pattern of stones on a river bottom. All the creatures of the Universe murmur its words in unending chant, keeping the hours holy. It fills me with recognition that what is within me and what is without me are the same. When everything is exquisite abundance there is no void to be filled. ( Janet Snowhill)
The Web of Life - We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man -- all belong to the same family. ... This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. ( Chief Seattle )
It makes no difference whether we go back to the teachings of Jesus and make them our own again, or whether we seek new forms. Where they strike the eternal core of humanity, the teachings of Jesus and of Laotzu, of the Vedas and of Goethe are the same. There is only one doctrine. There is only one religion. There is only one happiness. There are a thousand forms, a thousand heralds, but only one call, one voice. The voice of God does not come from Mount Sinai, it does not come from the Bible. The essence of love, beauty, and holiness does not reside in Christianity or in antiquity or in Goethe or Tolstoy-it resides in you, in you and me, in each one of us. This is the one eternal and forever identical doctrine, our one eternal truth. It is the doctrine of the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ that we bear within ourselves. ...Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call ‘happiness’ are not over here or over there, they are only ‘within ourselves.’ (Herman Hesse)
I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it—I don’t need to believe it. ( Carl Jung )
In the search for wisdom, you must act like a detective solving a murder. Reason is the victim. Everyone is suspect; their contradictory answers and actions are your clues. Reality is the supreme judge--impartial, consistent and swift. Keep your resolve! Happiness can only be achieved with the truth.