The Principal Tenet Of Jainism Is Non-harming.

Imagine A World In Which Generations Of Human Beings Come To Believe That Certain Films Were Made By God Or That Specific Software Was Coded By Him. Imagine A Future In Which Millions Of Our Descendants Murder Each Other Over Rival Interpretations Of Star Wars Or Windows 98. Could Anything -- Anything -- Be More Ridiculous? And Yet, This Would Be No More Ridiculous Than The World We Are Living In.

Almost All Our Suffering Is The Product Of Our Thoughts. We Spend Nearly Every Moment Of Our Lives Lost In Thought, And Hostage To The Character Of Those Thoughts. You Can Break This Spell, But It Takes Training Just Like It Takes Training To Defend Yourself Against A Physical Assault.

The Power Of Psychedelics... Is That They Often Reveal, In The Span Of A Few Hours, Depths Of Awe And Understanding That Can Otherwise Elude Us For A Lifetime.

We Are All Prisoners Of Our Thoughts.

Religious Faith Obscures Uncertainty Where Uncertainty . . . Exists, Allowing The Unknown, The Implausible, And The . . . False To Achieve Primacy Over The Facts.