{"author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","christianity","naturalism","religion","spirituality","unspirituality"],"id":13698,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"May all beings be free of pretended happiness.May all beings find their deepest lie.May all beings see the nature of their inner turmoil.May all beings realize what they are not.And through this, may all beings become who they already are.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","religion","spirituality","unspirituality"],"id":24169,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"The sense of a soul and afterlife is an intuitive illusion.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["afterlife","illusion","soul"],"id":31564,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"Separating one's “self” physically from the world (as an unseen entity) alienates the human being from the facts of a sensual world and its realities. In order to have a self, you must provide a story for that self. Whether it is the tale of past pain or future fears the etheric self requires a story because it is hitchhiking on the natural.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","christianity","naturalism","religion","spirituality","unspirituality"],"id":93181,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["cowards","hell","karma","revenge"],"id":116989,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"Children are defenseless to the ‘virus of dualism’ in whatever form it comes in - which is why [religious ideas] should not be introduced until [children reach] a cognitive age. Religious indoctrination is not required to raise healthy children. Their imagination should be nourished… but not invalidated or shamed. [The result can] be a neurosis, which I believe, is why [people] go to religion and metaphysics when they get older... In the best scenario, children would grow through their imagination into creative adults in an environment that is based on current psychology and a science-based education.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","atheism-definition","atheist","define-atheist","define-spiritual","definition-of-atheism","definition-of-spirituality","new-atheism","spiritual-definition","spiritual-inspiration","spirituality","spirituality-definition","spirituality-vs-religion","what-is-spirituality"],"id":119907,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["christopher-zzenn-loten","permission-to-be-human","spirituality","zzenn"],"id":125261,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"It is suspected, by some, that spiritual beings are extremely jealous of the natural world because they are nothing more than a figment of the imagination. This might explain their compulsive and obsessive behavior in trying to convince others they are real, and that the natural world is an illusion. The end of the world scenarios they conjure up reveal their Napoleon whit and superiority complex.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","christianity","naturalism","religion","spirituality","unspirituality"],"id":150367,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","atheism-definition","atheist","define-atheist","define-spiritual","definition-of-atheism","definition-of-spirituality","new-atheism","spiritual-definition","spiritual-inspiration","spirituality","spirituality-definition","spirituality-vs-religion","what-is-spirituality"],"id":171748,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"},{"text":"The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness.","author":"Christopher Zzenn Loren","tags":["atheism","christianity","naturalism","religion","spirituality","unspirituality"],"id":194921,"author_id":"Christopher+Zzenn+Loren"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}