Sharing Our Authority with God
We have to learn to be flexible enough to relinquish authority at certain moments in our life and other times to exert [...]
We have to learn to be flexible enough to relinquish authority at certain moments in our life and other times to exert [...]
So it’s very important that we recognize this for what it really is and not confuse it with conspiracy theories or wild [...]
Pure Religion is really an arena of resolution because when you see that real spirituality and religion is based on experience and not on ideology, not on belief—belief does play a role, but it's only to be helpful, not to be the ultimate because there are no ultimate beliefs.
Why Is war waged in the name of religion? Why does religion become what it has become over time? And even in present time, where in certain parts of the world there is real war waged in its name? We're still living in this religion-as-war state.
Religion is important, particularly in giving people a beginning structure within which to work, which includes a spiritual practice, a spiritual understanding, hopefully a very beneficial way of looking at the world a new understanding of yourself and the fact that you're here evolving spiritually, that you're not merely a sinner that is trying to please God so you'll be saved.
So living at the surface of our mind, we make plans and goals. We try to organize our affairs, organize our thinking, [...]
Religion has become a palliative. It has become a distraction more than an illumination. It has become something that people use [...]
God does not create belief. God does not create ideology. God only gives you wisdom and clarity and a high standard [...]
Knowledge is the most powerful force in the universe because it's eternal and it's connected to God. If it's eternal, you’re [...]
Power, wisdom and authority. You can’t give your authority to God. This is no spiritual welfare here. You can't wait for [...]