
When we accept
our mortality...
we become fearless !
I dream of a Star Trek world. This think tank will focus on creative actions designed to initiate a global paradigm shift towards a world where racism, poverty and war will be a thing of the past.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience
We are spiritual beings having a human experience
Teilhard de Chardin
Economy is the basis of society.
When the economy is stable, society develops.
The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material,
and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
...Morihei Ueshiba...
I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
From "The Pocket Dalai Lama," edited by Mary Craig, 2002. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
Religion must die.......so that reason may live.....Bill Maher-Religulous.
.....god is not religion.
.....i will not humanize god......i will not sexualize god......god is change.....god is a process......god is......not a giant old white guy with a long white beard sitting in the clouds.......god!
.....all religion is.....man made.
.....ignorance is the original sin.
.....our ignorance is the reason for.....faith.
.....all the major religions teach the golden rule......that works.
.....god made man in his image.....but then.....man made god in his image.
.....fear has perverted religion, turning the golden rule.....into the
war of the gods.
.....ignorance creates fear....fear creates intolerance....intolerance creates extremism....extremism creates hate....hate creates destruction.
.....intolerance is another word for.......extremism.
.....ignorance+fear+intolerance+extremism+hate=destruction.
.....faith is innocent....ignorance is not.
.....religion divides us, spirituality brings us together.
.....we cannot fault man for faith....we can however, hold man and religion, responsible for ignorance.
.....you must first define, "faith".
from the dictionary......faith 1: allegeance to duty or a person: LOYALTY 2: belief and trust in God 3: complete trust 4: a system of religious beliefs.
.....so the definition of "faith"...is what your trust is "in".....duty, a person, God, or a religion.
.....the word "trust" more deeply describes "the reliance on the truth of something"....or truth.
.....so you might say that faith boils down to what you "believe" is true......or "your belief."
.....and as i've said before.....
.....the "truth" has nothing to do......with what you "believe".
.....in other words......faith is not always founded on truth.
.....i have faith the sun will come up in the morning......i have no faith in war.
.....i'm not afraid of god....what reason could there be?
.....i don't believe in a god that needs to be worshiped.
.....i don't believe in a god that would doom me to burn in eternal pain.
......though god may be love, god is above all truth.......god is even the atheism of the atheists........mahatma gandhi.
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least.