When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
Interpretation
Recognizing a false belief changes your perspective permanently.
This quote emphasizes the profound impact of enlightenment and awareness on one's understanding of reality. Once a person sees through a previously accepted notion or belief, they cannot revert to their former ignorance; this transformation shapes their worldview and decisions moving forward.
In practice
In a lecture on critical thinking, one might quote this to illustrate the importance of questioning assumptions.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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