Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Jean-Yves Leloup All Beings Belief Believe Doctrine Teachers Teaching Tradition Welfare

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds All Beings Information Singularity