No one should live by any one book, faith or system. It stagnates one's growth and evolution by closing off the majority of possibilities and roads that one can take towards enlightenment.
However, without those teachings - no matter how flawed or even downright wrong they may be - we would not possess our current knowledge. We need even the most inane books on these matters because they all further and influence our ideas and beliefs.
Take the ideas and concepts that speak to you personally from all systems. Indeed, supplement these with your own inventions if it helps you. Faiths and systems are to be treated as suggestions and potential guidelines, not as a truthful whole.
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