Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite
misuse - and
the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better
ideas turn into
dogma, and it is by this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful
idea is
changed into robot dogma that is deadly. The problem starts at the secondary
level, not
with the originator or developer of the idea, but with the people who are
attracted to it,
until the last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility,
imagination,
and, most importantly, sense of humor to maintain it in the spirit in which it
was hatched.
Ideas are made by masters, dogmas by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed
on
the road.
(Robbins, Tom, 'Still Life With Woodpecker')
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