Secreto de Vida #48: Ser espiritual vs ser religioso

Ser espiritual = hacer nosotros el trabajo para cambiar. Hay que pelear en la batalla para estar cerca de La Luz (Dios).

Ser religioso = pedir a Dios que haga el trabajo por nosotros y nosotros seguir una doctrina, rutina...como "robots."

Cuando dejamos las cosas que nos controlan (adicciones, pensamientos negativos, personas), entonces...tenemos CONTROL de nuestras vidas.

- Roni

Shabbat, Kabbalah Center

NYC

The Dalai Lama's Description of Himself

I am just a simple human being.

This is nothing special.

I come from a small village with no modern education
and no awareness of the world.

Also, from age 15 or 16, I had an unthinkable sort of burden.

- His HOlliness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

Excerpt the book: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate,

Postmodernism is allergic to the idea of certainty, and makes a great deal of theoretical fuss over this rather modest everyday notion. As such, it is in some ways the flip side of fundamentalism . . . Some postmodern thought suspects that all certainty is authoritarian. It is nervous of people who sound passionately committed to what they say. In this, it represents among other things an excessive reaction to fascism and Stalinism. The totalitarian politics of the twentieth century did not only launch an assault on truth in their own time; they also helped to undermine the idea of truth for future generations.


By: Terry Eagleton(British Literary Critic)

THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;

We've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meetthe new neighbor.

We build more computers to hold moreinformation to produce more copies then ever,but have less communication;

We have become long on quantity,but short on quality.

These are times of fast foodsbut slow digestion;
Tall men but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.

It's a time when there is much in the window,but nothing in the room.

- The 14th Dalai Lama

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's Religious Landscape Survey - June 2008

Based on a sample of over 35,000 adults, the study maps the diversity of American's religious beliefs and practices.

EXISTENTIAL OXYMORONS:

- 20% of atheists believe in God

- 57% of evangelicals say that many religions can lead to eternal life

- 61% of HIndus in the US believe in reincarnation

- 62% of Buddhists int he US believe in nirvana

http://religions.pewforum.org/