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God, Religion, Faith, Nature, Science, Reason ...

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As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions or beliefs. However, it is a commonly held belief that categorizing people into "believers" and "non-believers" can be divisive and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and discrimination.

Everyone has the right to their own beliefs and religion (or lack thereof) and it's important to respect and tolerate differences in belief systems. Rather than dividing people into categories, it's more productive to focus on common values and shared experiences that bring people together, regardless of their beliefs.

It's also important to remember that people's beliefs can evolve and change over time, and it's not always helpful or accurate to categorize someone as a "believer" or "non-believer" based on one aspect of their identity.

OpenAI/ChatGPT, in response to "do you think it is appropriate to divide humankind into believer and non-believer?", 13.02.2023

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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius

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Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist, "Man’s Search for Meaning"

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Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will, through work, bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea’.

Chuck Close

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The biggest mistake, in general, that I’ve made and I’m trying to correct for that is to put too much of a weighting on somebody’s talent and not enough on their personality… It actually matters whether someone has a good heart, it really does. I’ve made the mistake of thinking sometimes it’s just about the brain. Elon Musk

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We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

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One day, when people have become tired of blindly believing irrational dogmas, and when nobody is threatened any longer with dire consequences or even death if he stops believing in those strange dogmas, the world will be grateful to Bharat Mata that she has conceived and preserved over millennia those eternal, precious insights for the benefit of humanity.

Maria Wirth

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The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. Its becoming manifest is conditional on very special goings-on in very special parts of this very world, namely on certain events that happen in a brain.

Erwin Schrodinger - Mind and Matter

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this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as ‘I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world’.

Erwin Schrödinger - My View of the World - The Vedantic Vision

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We are bringing order in consciousness, not by wanting order, not by making an effort to bring about order, but by listening, seeing, learning. To listen there must be no direction. To see there must be no distortion. And to learn, not to memorize, there must be freedom to observe and to watch.

J. Krishnamurthi, Krishnamurthi Readers

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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

 The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1934-1935: Volume 2: What is Right Action? - J. Krishnamurti            

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Work is love made visible.

Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet

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We form our beliefs first and then look for evidence in support of them after-wards.

Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies

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O there are Voices of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that can bear me back to Times Which cannot come again; Yet God forbid that I should lose The echoes that remain!

Adelaide Anne Procter, Poet, philanthropist

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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Khalil Gibran  

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The Gayatri mantra is, in Devanagari: ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ In IAST: oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt – Rigveda 3.62.10 (Om - Para Brahman (entire universe); Bhur - Bhuloka (Physical Plane); Bhuvah - Antariksha (space); Svah - Svarga Loka (Heaven); Tat - Paramatma (Supreme Soul); Savitur - Isvara (Surya) (Sun god); Varenyam - Fit to be worshipped; Bhargo - Remover of sins and ignorance; Devasya - Glory (Jnana Svaroopa ie Feminine/Female); Dheemahi - We meditate; Dhiyo - Buddhi (Intellect); Yo - Which; Nah - Our; Prachodayat - Enlighten.) -- We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may She enlighten our minds.

Swami Vivekananda, from wikipedia

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The base ten number notation we find so convenient for arithmetic dates back only to around AD 700, when the Hindus took the first great strides toward making that subject a powerful tool. The abbreviations for plus and minus didn’t come until the fifteenth century. And neither the equal sign nor clocks that could measure times to the second existed before the sixteenth century.

The Grand Design, Stephen W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow