One of those thoughts while walking . . .
Religion, is a tool for education. Once you understand what it is teaching, There is no more need for it. Kinda like training wheels on a bicycle. Don Q Hoti
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He concludes by summarizing the basic facts of human life -- a catalogue of uncertainties, crowned by the sole certainty of death -- and points to philosophy, or the love of wisdom and mindful living, as the only real anchor for our existential precariousness. -- Marcus Aurelius -- (I think)
Thus spake Jack
The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with heads cut off. I will try to teach it but it will be in vain, s’why I’ll end up in a shack praying and being cool and singing by my woodstove making pancakes. Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922–October 21, 1969)
Clipped this; liked it; forgot who said it (edited later)
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. July 28, 2019 My sister figured out where it came from: Walt Whitman See https://www.bartleby.com/400/poem/1489.html