“Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.” LittlesRealMovingIgnoranceIllusionShadowSubstance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.” IdeasMomentsMovingPlansIgnoranceCommitmentOneselfCommittedCommitInitiativeProvidenceBoldnessSplendidIncidentsUnforeseenMoment Of TruthInspirational CommitmentBoldness And CourageIneffectivenessBold Moves Author:Steven Pressfield
“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?” WayNeedsFirstsWellsMayLongSeemsMightWould BeMovingForceReligiousAtheismIgnoranceTvsLosingHappeningsConcernedRootsMeetingsPositive AtheismDesertSuperstitionsPreacherCousinLong WayRevivalSecularismGarmentsFundamentalistCongregationTrance Author:Phil Donahue