religions

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

God is created by the brain and can also be destroyed by the brain. But this way __ove_ doesn__ exist either, because it also is the result of molecular interaction within the brain. Love is a result of complex and mind-blowing interactions between neurotransmitters like Oxytocin, Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins and the reward center of the brain. Does this mean we should downright stop loving our family or friends? Since there is no existence of actual __ove_, should we just deny what our heart feels for our beloved ones? Whatever the answer is, the same goes for the faith upon divine existence. Only one thing to remember _ Love gives life, so should faith.

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.

So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.

The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its __lamboyant_ style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is __ntellectual_ and not __ramatic_, and it opposes the cold beauty of geometrical design to the mystical heroism of cathedrals. Islam is the perspective of __mnipresence_ (__od is everywhere_), which coincides with that of __imultaneity_ (__ruth has always been_); it aims at avoiding any __articularization_ or __ondensation_, any __nique fact_ in time and space, although as a religion it necessarily includes an aspect of __nique fact_, without which it would be ineffective or even absurd. In other words Islam aims at what is __verywhere center_, and this is why, symbolically speaking, it replaces the cross with the cube or the woven fabric: it __ecentralizes_ and __niversalizes_ to the greatest possible extent, in the realm of art as in that of doctrine; it is opposed to any individualist mode and hence to any __ersonalist_ mysticism. To express ourselves in geometrical terms, we could say that a point which seeks to be unique, and which thus becomes an absolute center, appears to Islam__n art as in theology__s a usurpation of the divine absoluteness and therefore as an __ssociation_ (shirk); there is only one single center, God, whence the prohibition against __entralizing_ images, especially statues; even the Prophet, the human center of the tradition, has no right to a __hristic uniqueness_ and is __ecentralized_ by the series of other Prophets; the same is true of Islam__r the Koran__hich is similarly integrated in a universal __abric_ and a cosmic __hythm_, having been preceded by other religions__r other __ooks___hich it merely restores. The Kaaba, center of the Muslim world, becomes space as soon as one is inside the building: the ritual direction of prayer is then projected toward the four cardinal points.If Christianity is like a central fire, Islam on the contrary resembles a blanket of snow, at once unifying and leveling and having its center everywhere.

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need.

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don__ get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey,

We are the flowers that make up the Creator's vast and beautiful garden.

God told us to love everyone. However, when you don__ like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on him or her, but the hatred you__e harboring. Otherwise, you will allow your piety to take over. Before you know it, you__e using the gospel as a sword to slice other religious people apart, which have offended you. From your point of helplessness, it will be is easy to recruit people that will mistake your kindness as righteousness, when in reality it is a hidden agenda to humiliate through the words of Christ. This game is so often used by women in the Christian faith, that it is the number one reason why many people become inactive. It is a silent, unspoken hypocrisy that is inconsistent with the teachings of the gospel. If you choose not to like someone, then avoid them. If you wish to love them, the only way to overcome your frustrations is through empathy, prayer, forgiveness and allowing yourself time to heal through distance. Try focusing on what you share as sisters in the gospel, rather than the negative aspects you dislike about that person.

Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture.