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As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

— Eric Maisel The Atheist’s Way (2009)

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You are free to cut off contact with toxic people and to eliminate toxic beliefs from your system.

The Atheist’s Way (2009)

We are on the threshold of understanding a shining idea: that each life can have meaning, even if the universe has none.

The Atheist’s Way (2009)

Life is a project to live, not a mystery to unravel.

The Atheist’s Way (2009)

Every argument for the objectivity of meaning is merely someone’s attempt to elevate her subjective experience and her opinions above yours and mine.

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Religion is excellent cover for the unscrupulous; it is much harder to think than it is to pray.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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