Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.
Shannon L. AlderTag: wisdom life intelligence happiness love philosophy integrity soul stories communication religion evolution authors actions novels wise games scholars choices confusion misunderstandings letting-go noble intent helpful parables wars walking-away clarification true-self direct fights retreating mixed-signals being-direct not-helpful reading-between-the-lines right-reasons
People don’t often mention God these days. God has become a taboo subject that you only refer to when heartache takes over your life. The rest of the time the idea of God lies dormant in people’s minds, like a pack of medication in a dark drawer.
Effrosyni MoschoudiGod has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion...One may eat a cake with icing either straight or sidewise. It will taste sweet either way.
RamakrishnaTag: religion religious-tolerance spiritual-truth
Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.
Shujoy ChowdhuryTag: inspirational reason inspirational-quotes religion sad part inspirational-life inspirational-religious everyone mosque takes
It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by virtue of being free, is intractable and incalculable, a truly Godlike gift, the faculty that makes a state of freedom possible. To exist in a state of freedom is a wild, strange thing, and was clearly intended as such. But what to the religions do with this? They say, "Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us." The effrontery of it! God, who would not coerce a fly, is painted as a supreme slavemaster! In the fact of this, any creature with spirit must rebel, must serve God entirely of his own will and volition, or must not serve him at all, thus remaining true to himself and to the faculties God has given him.
Robert SheckleyTag: free-will religion hypocrisy
Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.
Alan McCluskeyTag: religion spirituality thought-provoking
They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.
Idries ShahTag: fear life death religion mind sufism sufis
More men go to church than want to.
Mark TwainTag: religion
The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
C.S. LewisDim as the borrowed beams of moons and stars
To lonely, weary, wandering travelers,
Is Reason to the soul; and, as on high
Those rolling fires discover but the sky,
Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray
Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,
But guide us upward to a better day.
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