>> What is said is not our responsibility, what we do with what has been said is our responsibility.
>> I would also add that self-control is not necessary when we realize we are not the doer, and doership is the greatest cause of ego.
You have renounced volumes. Not in yourself, in others. You prefer to not do the work to apply that to yourself.
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>> I try to never allow the mind to wander, it is rarely beneficial.
>> Believing ourselves to be anything in particular, we will try to prove this to all we encounter. We become as robots, programmed rather than spontaneous living beings.
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>> Again, why take responsibility for what has already been completed? It only means you are stuck in the past, unwilling to let go.
>> Admitting what we actually are is the first step towards sanity.
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>> I have never diverged from calling religion the process of rebinding, because this is its meaning. My understanding has evolved around this, remaining static is simply a refusal to grow, but encountering our own divinity is the only purpose of religion.
>> When it suited me? When have I ever said anything other than this?
A few of the many words from history that some thing, as you prefer to call it, said about religion:
here: Do you even know what religion is? It is what all action should be guided by...
here: Religion is the process of discovering again our true being.
here: For me, religiousness is a way of life, but religion is only a division.
here: Religion is just as valid a science as any other field when practiced correctly,
it is merely the subjective investigation into existence where science is the objective.
here: ... the purpose of religion is to encounter a higher truth, a hidden truth.
here: This is the whole purpose of religion, everything else is to develop love and trust that you will allow yourself to merge. That oneness is salvation, there is nothing else which saves.
here: I hold that the only purpose of religion is to dissolve the soul back into God, that in this, all is known to you, and that nothing need be studied or learned before - in fact not even this much needs be known, simply a device should be offered to bring it about.
here: Religion is about as far from self-help as is possible, in fact ultimately it will kill the self which you identify with at this time.
here: Love is the glue of existence, religion is the result, the re-binding.
here: Religion is about experimenting with the subjective, science the objective... their answers are beginning to merge, as object and subject must merge in your being.
here: Please stop this absurdity, it is the reason for war, yet religion is about finding inner peace.
here: People have a strange notion of what the purpose of religion is, they think it is a guide to life, they do not see it is actually a guide on how to die that you can be reborn.
here: Religion is about merging back with existence, even in Luciferian beliefs the higher self is exactly this.
here: For me, to base belief in fear misses the entire point of religion, for religion is reward for the victor of death - Mahavir means just this, the great victor.
here: You saw control issues, and yet the very point of religion is exactly to give freedom.
here: He knows, as do all mystics, that the body of religion is irrelevant.
here: Religion is not a pursuit of mind, this must be understood. Religion is a pursuit of trust, of love, of let-go.
here: I am extremely against false religions and people that get caught up in their idiocies, you continuously support them though.
From this thread:
>> ...the whole game of religion is seen as a joke.
>> It is because so often religion is pursued to mask our insecurities and fears, we will believe anything that causes us to not need to look at them.
