Day 087q: The Center in every center … (July 10, 2019)
It was rare indeed to find sincerely loving Spirit within the walls of any church. Indeed, far more often than not, those same religious enclaves were home to restrictive dogmas and condemnatory accusations and bigot-written verses and conditional (ie non-loving) love. And yet here in Hontanas the opposite was blessedly true – with a significant portion of the main church’s entrance-nave being blatantly established as a truly nonjudgmental Place of Peace. Tea & cookies were set out for any & all to enjoy, Bibles in 20 languages were offered for any & all to read, and cushions of all colors & sizes were proffered upon which any & all might rest. No monies were asked for in return for these gifts and no proclamations of religious allegiance were in any way demanded. It was simply what a church of any faith or creed should be – namely, a humble place of rest & refuge for any & all of humanity to enjoy.
“The human heart – like all the founding masters of all the world’s religions (and indeed like all secular students who have mastered the various schools of ethics) – says, ‘This way.’ The human ego (alongside the external worlds of politics & law & economics it has created) world says, ‘No, that way.’ Religion itself says, ‘I am the way.’ Of course, it doesn’t take a master or a genius to understand that the former one ever directly clashes with the latter two, and that any & all men who find themselves choosing the ways of ego &/or religion over The Way of the Heart will always find himself so far off the actual Path that being lost indeed becomes his way.” ~ inspired by Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The most fluid way back to God is through acts of kindness, and kindness – by its very nature – knows no religion. Indeed, religion is like a narrow track winding its stony, meandering way along a mountain’s slippery side. Kindness is like arriving directly that mountain’s summit.” ~ inspired by Amit Ray
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