When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
God loved the birds and invented the trees, men loved the birds and invented cages
what is my purpose in life, what is my responsibility?
whether I like it or not, I am on this planet
and it is far better to do something for humanity.
so you see that compassion is the seed or basis.
If we take care to foster compassion,
we will see that it brings the other good human qualities.
the topic of compassion is not at all religious business;
it is very important to know that it is human business
that it is a question of human survival
that is not a question of human luxury....
It is clear that even without religion we can manage.
However, without these basic human qualities we cannot survive.
It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.
see also the dalai lama
What religion you are doesn't matter. You don't even have to have a religion to come to The Lord. Everyone comes to The Lord eventually, even atheists.
There is no religion but sex and music.
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears.
I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures.
I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.
Scientists don’t know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don’t believe it has any negative impact on people’s lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It’s like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it’s probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It’s an aesthetic thing.
Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division has given rise to the notion that the lower (ego and immature) self must be overcome while the higher (unitive and whole) self must be sought as the goal of human realization. Out of ignorance, I too clung to this notion because I believed it was this higher self that would be united with God for all eternity. It took a long time before my experiences led me to doubt this conviction and, at the same time, let in the possibility that this was not the whole truth and that there was still further to go.
Most people need religion.
Religion gives people a structure to build their lives and their worship around.
We all take our own spiritual journey. A particular religion can be part of that but doesn't have to be. Many, grow beyond their religions but many in the world don't.
God did not evolve. Humankind's understanding of God did. God has pretty much been the same but we as human's only know a little about God. prophets have given humankind glimpses of God through the ages. Religions have interpreted and rewritten the original writings of the prophets in an effort to instill the values they believed God (and each particular religion's leadership) wanted to instill in their followers and converts. The Lord's infinite wisdom only allows humanity to get what humanity needs incrementally, depending on the evolution of the human race. These things are revealed through The Lord's Prophets. To put it more succinctly, God has not evolved, humanity has.
"Why join any religion?" asked Raji with a frown. "Are dogs cats and cows Christian? Are they Hindu?" Her words made sense. The animals of this world did not go into a Christian heaven, a Moslem heaven or a Hindu paradise. They did not claim any God as their own.
"I wouldn't mind being a bird," I said, while Raji laughed raucously.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
God's love, never fails.
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8 KJV)
"The original oppression of Woman was based on crude denigration. She caused Man to fall, so she became a scapegoat. No, not a scapegoat which might be blameless but a culprit richly deserving of whatever suffering Man chose thereafter to heap on her. That is Woman in the Book of Genesis. Out here, our ancestors, without the benefit of hearing about the Old Testament, made the very same story differing only in local color. At first the Sky was very close to the Earth. But every evening Woman cut off a piece of the Sky to put in her soup pot, or in another version, she repeatedly banged the top end of her pestle carelessly against the Sky whenever she pounded millet or, as in yet another rendering—so prodigious is Man’s inventiveness, she wiped her kitchen hands in the Sky’s face. Whatever the detail of Woman’s provocation, the Sky moved away in anger, and God with it.
‘Well, that kind of candid chauvinism might be ok for the rugged taste of the Old Testament. The New Testament required a more enlightened, more refined, more loving even, strategy—ostensibly that is. So the idea cam to Man to turn his spouse into the very Mother of God, to pick her up from right under his foot where she’d been since Creation and carry her reverently to a nice, corner pedestal. Up there, her feet completely off the ground, she will be just as irrelevant to the practical decisions of running the world as she was in her bad old days. The only difference is that now Man will suffer no guilt feelings; he can sit back and congratulate himself on his generosity and gentle manliness.
‘Meanwhile, our ancestors out here, unaware of the New Testament, were working out independently a parallel subterfuge of their own. Nneka, they said. Mother is supreme. Let us keep her in reserve until the ultimate crisis arrives and the waist is broken and hung over the fire, and the palm bears its fruit at the tail of its leaf. Then, as the world crashes around Man’s ears, Woman in her supremacy will descend and sweep the shards together.
‘The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
The only religion that should exist is Peoplism. The religion where it doesn't matter who you worship, we'll respect your God just the same.
Any ideological or religious construct that has the audacity and hubris to define God and make itself the sole pathway to truth, operates in the delusional cesspool of its own darkness.
Copyright 2008 - David C. Bojorquez
Faith brings people together, religion divides them
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that
(1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in
them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism,
in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own
close relatives. My own veneration for other faiths is the same as
that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible
"So you call yourself religious? Please don't do that if you're stuck in only one of the many traditions that manifest divine love. When you've found connection and inspiration from many religions, then you probably know more about divine love, and less about prejudice, ego and fear."
God sent Christ to die on the cross for me, therefore, to God I am worth Christ.
"Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be : 'On to God" - Max Planck
Today, perhaps owing to the dissolution of traditional standards, and the consequent weakening of persona support as well as the influx of often inadequately understood Eastern religious and cult influences, we encounter many more instances of inadequate egos being "lost" in the world of archetypes. An adequate personal ego structure has to be built before the transpersonal unconscious can be faced. To this end, introversion alone does not suffice. Working on one's relationships to partners, group and community is an equally important aspect of ego building and individuation.
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
"With religion or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."