My (religious) beliefs, in a nutshell

"'Truth is a pathless land.' One cannot come to it through any organization, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. One has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of one's own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Humankind has built in itself images as a fence of security -- religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates one's thinking, one's relationships and one's daily life. These images are the cause of our problems, for they divide human being from human being."

This is an excerpt from a speech made by J. Krishnamurti, 1929. (I changed the androcentric nouns and pronouns to be non-gender-specific, however.)

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ALSO, aptly stated this way by the great F. Dostoevsky: "The soul is of no sect, no party: it is, as you say, our passions and our prejudices, which give rise to our religious and political distinctions."

...Been listening to the Smiths all day. Am somewhat weary and caffeine-addled.

"caffeine-addled"