Religion Vs. Spirituality – One Point Of View

“Telling people you are spiritual but not religious is often greeted with a confused face.  People tend to think of spirituality as something very strange and mysterious.  They even struggle to differentiate it from religion.

The truth of the matter is that spirituality is perhaps the most natural thing there is.  It is simply your own conscious self recognizing that you are more than just a body, that you are a soul with infinite potential.
Religion is a path to God. Spirituality is also a path to God. However, they have differences in approach.
The essence of religion:
Fear God and obey God.
The quintessence of spirituality:
Love God and become a divine representation of the Creator.

Some of the main differences between religion and spirituality –

1. Experience vs Belief. Religion usually entails adhering to a certain dogma or belief system. Spirituality places little importance on intellectual beliefs but is concerned with growing into and experiencing the Divine consciousness.
2. Fear vs Love. Quite often religion takes the approach of fearing God. Religion is often concerned with sin, guilt, and a concept of a God who punishes. The spiritual approach to God is through the path of love. This is a love where there is no judgment – only acceptance. Spirituality feels so-called sins are really just ignorance based on a false belief of who we are.
3. Where is God? Often religion talks of God as being high in the heavens. At times God can seem far from the reach of aspiring humanity. Spirituality shows us that God is omniscient and omnipresent and can be felt as a living presence in our own hearts. Spirituality says there is no separation between the Creator and Creation.
4. One True Religion vs Universality. Many followers of religion feel that only their path can lead to salvation. They have tremendous faith in their own religion, but at the same time, they feel other religions are wrong. Therefore, they can feel a necessity to convert others to their faith.
All spiritual persons are religious but all religious persons are not
necessarily spiritual.
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There is nothing more toxic to the soul or dangerous to your development as a person than believing in something that is wrong, misguided, and outdated.
What I am talking about here specifically is religion.
Now let me be clear. I’m not talking about religious texts necessarily, or God, or Christ, or Buddha, or any of the wisdom contained within various religions. I am talking about religious fundamentalism as it currently exists.
There is a difference between having a personal relationship with God and being buried head-deep in religious dogma and spiritual ignorance.”

A Few Aspects Of Power

“Power is the ability to empathize with others without being affected personally by such feelings. But true power comes with much responsibility. ‘To whom much is given, much is expected.’ Power does not mean that you are better than others but that you are much more reserved than others. The presence of power does not mean dominance, but a sense of self-preservation.

Self-preservation is the ultimate power. A person who reacts too quickly, too extremely, and too emotionally cannot wield power simply because their sense of preservation is diminished and therefore results in reactions. Power ultimately relies on self-preservation.

Power is patience. Power is resilience. Power is consideration. Power is empathy but without self-control it becomes nothing but an illusion. The illusion of power is that it belongs to a specific group or person, a specific place or a specific thing but power is none of these things because true power is in the heart; a heart full of self-preservation. So the ultimate power is love; love of oneself, and also the love of others. Mind you, this love does not mean weakness. Love seen as weakness is an illusion and only serves as foolishness to assume love to be weak. True love is never weak.

Love is the ultimate power and those who wield it must do so in truth and honour.

And so it is.

Now, may the joy of knowing yourself be with you always.

Eternal Peace.”

ASCENSION 101: The Old Souls And The Adepts (Series), THE ILLUSION OF POWER, David Khillaveli

Naturally Feel Your Inner Strength And Integrity

“Your attitude will give you a great day or a hard day by how you perceive the challenges.  Are you going to feel defeated and overwhelmed?  Or are you going to feel like you’re mastering it and seeing that this is merely just living out life as you need to explore and experience everything that you have asked for and be able to make the most out of it?

You are in complete control of your reactions.

Be observant of your knee-jerk reactions that have been created in the past and notice that you are simply repeating a cycle of your reactions emotionally.  Be accountable for the way you choose to act, and instead of reacting, think about how you feel when you know things are merely playing out for the experiences.

If you’ve already mastered drama, if you’ve already mastered self-sabotage, then maybe you want to have a different experience and take control of things that way.  When you realize the power of your mind, when you see that you can manifest a lot of abundance and a lot of insight, support, and protection, and when you realize that you can master your life that way, you will stop focusing on the lower emotions. You’ll stop feeding into the lack mentality. You will stop manifesting drama, isolation, and feelings of aloneness.

Take a moment to look at your behaviors and your reactions. ‘Are these old patterns that are no longer serving you?’  ‘Are these old belief systems that are not serving you?’

When you love yourself and know that you don’t have insecurities, you’re not people-pleasing anymore and you know who you are, you do not buy into someone else’s projection of your lack.  You feel your empowerment in your accountability for something.  You know you have done your good inner work.  You hold a belief system that you are a loving human being and so naturally you feel your inner strength and integrity.”

Mastering Old Earth – Why You Survived When So Many Others Did Not, Connectingtoheaven@gmail.com

You As A Soul

You as a soul agreed to come into form and wear a body for a while.

Such creative opportunities this experience affords you!

And you knew that this body would limit your awareness of your true Being. And you knew that there would be fellow souls, perhaps a bit less limited than even your soul nature, who would always be around to help you.

And so, it is a bit like an actor on a stage who agrees to wear a blindfold. There are others within the play who play the role of helpers, taking you by the arm and guiding you while you are a bit limited in vision. All the while you are acting, you know that once you step off the stage the blindfold will come off. Such comfort there is in knowing this.

Such assurance here and now that you agreed to this for the opportunities, knowing assistance is close at hand. You are so very loved.

suzannegiesemann.com

Giving What You Have Received

“No one can give what he has not received. ²To give a thing requires first you have it in your own possession. ³Here the laws of Heaven and the world agree. ⁴But here they also separate. ⁵The world believes that to possess a thing, it must be kept. ⁶Salvation teaches otherwise. To give is how to recognize you have received. ⁸It is the proof that what you have is yours.

You understand that you are healed when you give healing. ²You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. ³You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. ⁴There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. ⁵Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. ²All are laid here already. ³All can be received but for the asking. ⁴Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. ⁵There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give.

²Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you?

³Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. ⁴Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. ⁵It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. ⁶Let us an instant dream with Him. ⁷His dream awakens us to truth. ⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.”

A Course In Miracles, (ACIM, W-159.1:1–2:5,  (ACIM, W-159.6:1-5)  (ACIM, W-159.10:1-8), Foundation For Inner Peace, acim.org

 

Dreams Do Come True

“Manifestation is not about what we create, it’s about what we open ourselves up to experience.

Have you ever felt a desire for something only to say to yourself, ‘I don’t see how this can happen?’ This curious thought can either shut you down or it can open you up. What if instead of ‘how’ you asked yourself ‘what,’ – ‘what new perspectives, potentials, and possibilities are opening up for me?’ or ‘show me what the next steps are to experience this dream.’

The curiosity you have is inviting you to look in new directions, to discover new timelines you can experience, and to unlock the location where the dream is already waiting for you. In other words, the ‘window’ you are looking for is already there, you need only discover it by learning to follow the steps the Divine lays out for you.

Every desire that arises from within you is connected to a possibility that is available to you now. What you want, wants you too.

Conscious Creation is about learning to work with the Universe, through Alchemy of the Light, to change your perceptions. When you do, you will shift your attention, and align with your inner creator, and your inspirations will emerge.

It looks and feels like magic, but dreams do come true!”

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