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Working for the Universal Good
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The Future
Religio,the Authentic World,emphasizing the imperative of individual freedom, of seeking truth and of living truth.Step beyond
the limits of the mind and explore and dissolve our repressed unconscious through meditation. We are challenged to step beyond
the false limits placed on humanity through the social, religious and political minds we have all inherited and to bring about
a global transformation that can only begin at the most personal, individual level. Peeling the Onion that reaches the most
basic and overlooked corners of our human experience, sharpening our capacity for consciousness and truth and Love.
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The path to freedom is filled with questions and uncertainty. Is it possible to truly know who we are?
Do our lives have a purpose, or are we just accidental? What are we meant to contribute? What are we meant to become, to create,
and to share?
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Understanding our times challenges us to understand our world and ourselves in a new and radical way.
The first step toward understanding, is to question and doubt all that we have been taught to believe. All our lives we’ve
been handed so-called truths by countless others—beliefs we learned to accept without reason. It is only in questioning
our beliefs, assumptions, and prejudices that we can begin to uncover our own unique voice and heal the divisions within us
and without. Once we discover our authentic self, we can embrace all aspects of the human experience—from the earthy,
pleasure-loving qualities that characterize Zorba the Greek to the watchful, silent qualities of Gautam the Buddha. We can
become whole and live with integrity, able to respond with creativity and compassion to the religious, political, and cultural
divides that currently plague our society.
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We are challenged to identify, loosens, and ultimately helps to untie
the knots of fear and misunderstanding that restrict us—leaving us free to discover and create our own individual path
to freedom, and to God.
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Doubt—because doubt is not a sin, it is the sign of your intelligence.
You
are not responsible to any nation, to any church. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self-knowledge. And
the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any
effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through
a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities—not as something to be done, not as duty to be fulfilled, but
as a joy to do. A Beginning with No End ...
"When Doubt Is Not, TRUST Is"
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Expressing the inexpressible.
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Truth cannot
be expressed: that inexpressibility is intrinsic to truth. Thousands and thousands of people have tried to express it - very
few have succeeded even in giving a reflection of it.
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One approach is that of an artist, the poet, the story-teller.
Whenever somebody has experienced life, his experience has flowered into parables: Jesus comes to mind, that seems to
be the easiest way to hint at that which cannot be said. A parable is a device, a great device; it is not just an ordinary
story. The purpose of it is not to entertain you, the purpose of it is to say something which there is no other way to say.
Life cannot be put into a theory - it is so vast, it is so infinite.
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A theory by its very nature is closed. A theory
has to be closed if it is a theory; it cannot be open-ended, otherwise it will be meaningless. A parable is open-ended: it
says and yet it leaves much to be said, it only hints. And that which cannot be said can be shown. It is a finger pointing
to the moon. Don’t cling to the finger - that is irrelevant - look at the moon. Parables in themselves are beautiful,
but that is not their purpose…they go beyond, they are transcendental.
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Rejoicing in Existence
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Have Undying TRUST in GOD
'The Will of God will never take you where the
Grace of God will not
protect you.'
"A man just got married and was returning home with his wife. They were
crossing
a lake in a boat when suddenly a great storm arose. The man was a
warrior, but the woman became very much afraid because
it seemed almost
hopeless -- THE BOAT WAS SMALL AND THE STORM WAS REALLY HUGE, AND ANY
MOMENT THEY WERE GOING TO BE
DROWNED. But the man sat silently, calm and
quiet, as if nothing was happening.
The woman was trembling and she
said, "Are you not afraid? This may be our
last moment of life! IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO REACH THE
OTHER
SHORE. Only some miracle can save us, otherwise death is certain.
Are you not afraid? Are you mad or something? Are you
a stone or
something?"
THE MAN LAUGHED AND TOOK THE SWORD OUT OF ITS SHEATH. The woman was even
more puzzled
-- what he is doing? Then he brought the naked sword close to
the woman's neck -- so close that just a small gap was there,
it was
almost touching her neck.
He said, "ARE YOU AFRAID?"
She started to giggle and laugh and said, "WHY
SHOULD I BE AFRAID? If the
sword is in your hands, why should I be afraid? I know you love me."
He put the sword
back and said, "This is my answer. I know God loves me,
and the sword is in His hands, and the storm is in His hands --
so
WHATSOEVER IS GOING TO HAPPEN IS GOING TO BE GOOD. If we survive, good; if
we don't survive, good -- because EVERYTHING
IS IN HIS HANDS, AND HE
CANNOT DO ANYTHING WRONG."
This is the trust one needs to imbibe. SUCH TREMENDOUS TRUST
IS CAPABLE OF
TRANSFORMING YOUR WHOLE LIFE! And ONLY such tremendous trust is capable of
transforming your life --
less than that won't do."
All Is Well, All Is Well ...
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