Sophia

“When you confer spiritual authority on another person, you must realize that you are allowing them to pick your pocket and sell you your own watch. How”
― Alan W. Watts, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

“A man who hates always believes himself justified. He never hates anything that he believes to be good. He thinks he is being just, therefore, in his hatred, but the hatred itself forms a very strong claim that will follow him throughout his lives, until he learns that only the hatred itself is the destroyer.”
― Jane Roberts

“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. For we
cannot alter our heart; its basis is determined by motives; and our head deals with objective facts, and applies
to them rules which are immutable. Any given individual is the union of a particular heart with a particular
head.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“truly evil people, with all their malice and hatred, pose far less of a threat to mankind than the basically good people who believe in "authority.”
― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition