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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism
Albert Einstein (via abilikes)
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.
Dalai Lama (via drinkthe-koolaid)
Children today are born into a society in which attachment to all things material and physical fuel the economy and dominate our culture, while the mere idea of Oneness, God, and spirituality in general are considered psychotic and delusional.
Some of us, however, are born with an innate sense that something is very wrong with the ways of this world. Ever since childhood we felt a pull, a persistent intuition that this is not how the world is supposed to be; that it was meant for something much, much greater.
Because our intuition clashes so harshly with the ideals of the modern world, many of us have tried to mask our inner urges; we felt helpless. “What could I even do?” “They’d think I’m crazy.” “No one will listen, other people don’t want to hear about this.”
So we try to attach ourselves to worldly things, since that’s what people do in the world today, that’s what fuels the economy, and it’s reflected in our entire culture. We try desperately to cling to something - ANYTHING - that we think will distract us from our spiritual and existential thirsts and replace them with ego. It could be through drugs, excessive shopping, gaming, drinking, smoking, even studying.. anything that we can use to inflate our egos so that we don’t have to deal with that constant voice in our head that echoes, “isn’t there more to life than this?”
But the voice doesn’t leave. And for a good reason.
Well guess what; you’re not alone.
People like you and I, we aren’t rare. We’re everywhere; and we’re starting to realize who we REALLY are.
It all starts in the mind. YOU are the creater, sustainer and destroyer of the entire universe. It’s the YOUniverse. When you pay attention, you begin to realize that the thoughts you cling to send vibrations to the EXTERIOR world; yes, your thoughts DIRECTLY influence the awareness of the entire world around you.
If you wake up, THE WORLD WAKES UP.
Nobody can take away the power of your mind. No laws, no jail cell, nothing. Not even death. You are beyond everything. All you need to do is wake up, and realize this. That’s it.
That’s why you’ve always felt like there was something more. Your mind has the power to change the world with every thought. That’s what we are here to do.
THINK about it.
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, ‘This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant’? Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’ A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths
Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo (via purplebuddhaquotes)
One of the most divine, sacred, deeply religious things that can happen is a total loss of your personal religion, a dropping of your second-hand belief in God and a waking up to what the word ‘God’ has always been pointing to, beyond words and sounds and images and the passing of experiences. To confine God to a word, a belief, an image, a feeling, a concept, a story, a dream, an ideology, to imprison God in a time-bound religious system, is to put limits on the vastness and give God a boundary, an inside and an outside, a shape, a form, a time-frame. To believe in God, to think of God, to dream of God, to argue about God, to claim God as ‘mine’ or ‘ours’ in any way, is to separate ourselves from God and each other, and create division where there is none. That is idol worship, the worship of form and story and mental truth, and it is not a sin but a vast limitation, a human forgetting of what can be only ever hinted at by the metaphor ‘God’.
Jeff Foster (via steepyoursoul)
it does not exist, but is all that exists
It’s about manifesting the parallel reality that you prefer to manifest consciously rather than allowing your reality to be attracted to you by your unconscious beliefs, by your fears, by your doubts, by your hesitations, by your believe in lack of self-worth which has no place in the idea of a positive frame of reference. You are all worthy! If you weren’t all worthy, believe me, you wouldn’t exist because creation does not make mistakes. Thus, if you exist, you belong, there is a reason why creation is not complete without you… Stop arguing with creation about your worth. Take it at its word, if you exist, you deserve to exist and if you deserve to exist, you deserve to be who you are as fully as you possibly can. This is just simple logic. Again, if you didn’t deserve to be worthy, you wouldn’t exist for there would be no reason for your existence. All that is would be complete without you. But if you’re here, it knows that without you, it is not complete. So be in that vibration, live in that vibration!
Bashar (via porntree)