You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Most religions and some spiritual groups are an exercise in the imagination where people imagine that they have powers and abilities simply because they believe. They believe that something has been done or will be done for them simply because they believe. This is simply not so. The mind, imagination and beliefs can create a false identity in which it appears a change has occurred, but in truth it has not.

Change only occurs and lasts when you move from the mind, imagination and believing to knowing. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear and that is what the mind is. It mimics, makes copies and tries to look like the real thing, but it is not. You will never know true reality if you create it in your mind and imagination.