Individual Opening to God



Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009

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I think that our lives should not be bargaining, compromising or holding back from what we have read or heard, but an involvement with our lives and with what is right. If we want to be renewed, deepened and transported to new level, we first need to become aware of our relationship to God and our unity with everything. We don't need another theological system or a new interpretation of the Bible, but our individual opening or path to God.

Therefore, religion or rigorous practice can't be applied with pressure and intimidation because that only brings force and violence, not wisdom so it must be fulfilled with reason, debate and intuition. When religion is left to the conviction and conscience of every person, then one can achieve a balance in this world between positive and negative, good and evil, and also between pleasure and pain. If religion brings fear, hatred, separation or anything that will frighten a child, it is probably not a true practice. Religion should bring reverence and respect for everyone and everything, and it should also not be bent for the rich and powerful because one will see wealth and worldly pleasure as worthless in the higher layers of the mind. The cloak of hypocrisy and self-interest has to be removed so praise and blame can be taken with a calm assurance unaffected by both honor and disgrace. There is no need to limit our possibilities as we open our consciousness to greater receptivity, to an enlarged concept of life as it takes on a fresh and extraordinary interpretation.

Religion should not be used to manipulate people in politics. It should be respected and used internally.

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