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Category: God & Spirituality

He will carry you through

Jesus wept. He knew sorrow. Jesus felt pain. He knew suffering.

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Love Is My Religion

Love is a way of life. Love is open. Love is undefined. Love is infinite. Love cannot be weighed. It cannot be measured. It cannot be put on a graph. Love is all-encompassing yet incalculable.  Sometimes it will take over your whole life. It will be in every breath, in every blink, in every step, in every word, in every thought, and engulf your entire being with its intangible abundance. For me, love is my religion. It is the foundation of my church. It is the guideline of my creed. It is the song of my prayer. It does not condemn. It does not judge. It does not betray. It does not begrudge. It does not war. When you live in alignment with love; great things happen. Love will fuel the hero and will defuse the villain. It is an endless well of spiritual and emotional nourishment. Love will forgive, heal, inspire, embrace, and transform your life. Love is my religion. © Steve Maraboli From the bestselling book “Unapologetically You”

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Masters and Preachers and Gurus, Oh My

We are nonphysical, spiritual consciousness experiencing a material human existence. In the scope of eternity, we are spiritual beings that spend a very short time living this human experience. You are already a spiritual being; always have been – always will be. Why would you throw away even a single human day, trying to be what you already are? And why would any of us succumb to the parasitic antics of the countless “Masters” and “Preachers” and “Gurus”… oh my?!? For years, centuries, and millennia we have had these masters and preachers and gurus (oh my) trying to teach us to be something we already are. We are enchanted by their charismatic and pain-anesthetizing words, but during this process, we lose connection with our human potentiality. So we end up with plenty of spiritual solutions to deal with our stressful human feelings, but no practical strategies to avoid those feelings and situations to begin with. We end up buying these books in the Spiritual, Self-Help, Personal Growth sections of the book store (notice these sections get bigger and bigger). We attend the huge expo events, with masters and preachers and gurus speaking and peddling their “miracle” products; talking about transcending

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Pretend God is Deaf: Learning the Language of God

Being raised Catholic and having read the scriptures many times, I had always privately wondered about and even questioned the nature of God and the power of prayer. I would wonder why, even though millions around the world have prayed for peace, there has always been war.  Why countless people have prayed for health, but have just been surrounded by disease. Why so many have prayed for abundance, but have experienced famine. I couldn’t help but privately question why an ever-loving God would ignore such requests. One day, in a moment of frustration, I had a revelation. I quickly looked back at scriptures and even thought about my own life and prayers I felt weren’t answered. I realized that maybe it wasn’t that they we never answered but instead, were never heard. You see, I came to a realization that the language of God is action. Even though it has been a popular idea to make God similar to the old myths of a genie in a bottle who simply grants wishes to a passerby, that representation of God isn’t supported by anything neither written nor experienced. God is deaf to your words. God is deaf to anything that isn’t

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Do Something!

I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because the rigorous schedule I had made for myself left me exhausted. Looking to not talk to the person next to me and simply endure the flight, I decided to open my newspaper and read about what was happening in the world. As I continued to read, it seemed that everywhere I looked there were stories of injustice, pain, suffering, and people losing hope. Finally, fueled by my tired, irritable state, I became overcome with compassion and frustration for the way things were. I got up and went to the bathroom and broke down. With tears streaming down my face, I helplessly looked to the sky and yelled to God. “God, look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God, how could you let this happen? Why don’t you do something?” Just then, a quiet stillness pacified my heart. A feeling of peace I won’t ever forget engulfed my body. And, as I looked into my own eyes in the mirror, the answer to my own question came back to me…

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Reflections on God

The experience of God is a subjective one; a personal awareness…  God is to be felt in your core; not to be measured with an instrument… To argue or defend our personal experience of God is a waste of energy… To impose our subjective experience of God on others as an objective reality is an insoluble task and a misuse of time… If the idea of God was to be held captive by the written word, Jesus would have been an author instead of an activist… Jesus walked ahead of his disciples and told them to “follow” him; yet with all the walking of their travels, they never arrived… it’s ALL about the journey… This practice of “following” is lost in the calling of one’s self a Christian; placing Christ as your colleague… this leads to the hubristic act of judging others and losing sight of the great message… the message is best lived when one is a student of Christ… placing Jesus back in His role as Teacher… one to be followed… No matter what your religion, the most effective way to represent it is to avoid arguing and defending the details of the story, but to faithfully live

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