[MD] ideas

[MarshaV]

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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