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What is the difference between superstition and established
religion? Superstitions are primitive and religions are more advanced. The
former creates an imaginary threat. The latter developed an imaginary rescue to
its imaginary threat.
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The mind is unable to bear a contradiction against itself.
He would sooner lose himself in a thousand crossword puzzles than sit for five
minutes in his own thought. The contradiction is so prominent, so obvious to
the solitary thinker that he is forced to hunt down an external duty to occupy
his mind – or grapple with himself. And one who grapples with himself expands
himself – finds another door in the “labyrinth of the breast.” We do not fear the locked door. We fear
that the door might actually open. To believe the door is locked relieves us of
our task. One’s own contradiction is either a locked
door or a crack that one recognizes and crawls through to continue the journey.
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If being well-adjusted were a virtue, then honesty would be
an inability to bury a contradiction.