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“Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence, thereby serving as a ground from which to respond more openly and vitally to whatever occurred.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.”
― Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs