What if our religion was each other


If our practice was our life

If prayer, our words.

What if the temple was the earth

If forests were our church......

If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans

What if meditation was our relationships

If the Teacher was life

If wisdom was self-knowledge

If love was the center of our being



~ Ganga White

Fear

"Fear of knowing is very deeply fear of doing."  Abraham Maslow

Imagination

"Imagination is more important that knowledge."  Albert Einstein

Knowing

"Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know."  Zen Paradigm

Forgiveness

Please do not believe me
if ever I should say that you've upset me.
Sometimes I forget the true source of my feelings.

You cannot make me sad,
impatient,
angry,
or otherwise dis-eased.
Only a hope or expectation of you on my part,
which you have not fulfilled,
can move me thus.

Yet I am much too human
to be without hopes and expectations,
and I am also much too human
to live always in the knowing
that my hopes and expectations
have no claim upon your being.

So if I say that you've upset me,
please forgive me for attempting
to disinherit my own self's creation of my pain.
And please do not ignore my deeper message:
I care enough about you
to include you in my hopes and expectations.
~Noel McInnis

Promises and Commitments

"It is uncomfortable when someone perceives us as breaking faith with past promises.   Yet, if we live fully, it is inevitable that this will sometimes happen, because change in inevitable, and commitments, if they are to remain vital, must be remade and renewed.   Often we protect ourselves from the knowledge of broken promises by pretending nothing has changed."  Oriah

Knowledge

"Teaching is your problem; you have taught yourself too much.  Now, unteach, unlearn.   Now drop all that you know.  Knowledge is your barrier to knowing."   Hui-neng

Knowledge

"You can lead a Saint to knowledge, but you can't make him think." - Richard Packham

Beliefs

"I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and
then I know it-- I don't need to believe it."  Carl Jung

Knowledge and Religion

"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more
widespread is the decline of religious belief."   Sigmund Freud

Religion

"A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows."   Mark Twain