It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly - seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth - not a belief - is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me. This quote is available on video.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- God is a human-made fiction meant to console, but belief systems block truth; removing them brings fear but reveals reality.
- In plain terms
- Beliefs comfort you but stop you from seeing the truth; letting them go is scary but honest.
- What can you take from it?
- Face the truth without belief systems even if it is scary.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What beliefs comfort you?
- Are you ready to face reality without them?
Another view
Many find comfort and community in belief systems that are vital for them.
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