#ali

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#any #blind #blind obedience #christians #civil

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#back #came #convinced #home #hoping

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #fear #freeing #important #non-denominational

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #each #field #linear #manifest

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#carefully #death #deserved #dimensions #experienced

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#body #consciousness #death #extend #extremely