220 Quotes About Dogma

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Theories or belief system are just glasses you are wearing. Those who wear green glasses see green. Those who wear red see red. Then they fight. Then somebody wears a mix of green and red. New colours and shades keep coming up. If you like the shade you're wearing, enjoy. If you want to remove your glasses, seek!

Forget awakening of soul, majority of people first need to open windows of their head: Learn a language other than your own, stay at a place where people don't speak your language, try to understand those who have completely opposite point of view than yours.

Spirituality and religion are paths to reach God. But majority of people have installed their tents on the path itself. Their beliefs and theories are so rigid that they have a retort for everything. Even if God comes to them, they will call Him impostor and go back to their tent and bury their head in scriptures and symbols and rituals.

Like all paths, spiritual or religious path is also spiral. You may be going downwards or upwards. Many spiritual/religious people pick up more and more dark crap every day (ideas, theories, systems, crazy groups etc.) and sink under its weight. You are going upwards only if you're letting go of things and getting lighter each day. At one point, you have to let go of gods and scriptures too.

Instead of discovering the truth which is all-pervading, people take the easy route and say, "My belief is the only truth. It will become all-pervading in the future when all the non-believers will either perish or convert to my belief.

God said, "I am the one and only word spoken in the language of silence. All the words spoken or written by the mankind are just an attempt to translate me into their language. So many holy and unholy books, so many theories, ideologies, doctrines, dogmas_. Why. humanity. why? Why can’t you accept that I can’t be translated? Why can’t you return to the language of silence in which I am originally written?

If somebody has a false belief, you can’t deliver them the truth unless they fully trust in you. More you try to hammer the truth at them, more they will defend and strengthen their false belief.