Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
Some people do polarizing the religion against science. I use both to solve a problem with two different kind of approach.
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement --that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it --that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
We have tried to provide a real image of ancient Persia. According to historical documents, Persians were pacifist and showed a great tolerance in their encounter with foreign beliefs and religions.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. (J.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world a non-missionary church is in the bands of death
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
That person who shall die while he is studying, in order to revive the knowledge of religion, will be only one degree inferior to the prophets.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions. i. e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.
I think that the filmmakers entering the field today are from the first generation to openly challenge the legitimacy of religion.
Prays Nanak, what is the nature of the spiritual people They are self-realized they understand God. By Guru's Grace, they contemplate Him such spiritual people are honored in His Court.
When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
Character is like the fire within the flint-latent until it is struck out of the stone. Observing the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light And so it is with the dark experiences of life. And it is only us, individually, that decide what that darkness is, even without quite knowing the reasons for its being. And then we must learn to let light enter. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the v
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
And those who disbelieved said to their apostles We will most certainly drive you forth from our land, or else you shall come back into our religion. So their Lord revealed to them Most certainly We will destroy the unjust.
Do and dedicate, work and worship, plant and protect but do not worry about the fruit that is the secret of spiritual success.
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left nor glimpse divine; Lo thy dread empire, Chaos is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors.
There's never any intention to satirize the church or poke fun at religion in any way.
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part.
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
I wouldn't be surprised if he equated intelligent design to religion. He's a religious leader who makes statements in a religious context.
Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
It should also be evident that exhibitions of the native brand of fascism are not confined to any single section, class or religion.
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