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posted April 23, 2011 02:32 AM            

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Can anyone tell me the difference between being Religious and being spiritual??

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posted April 23, 2011 02:42 AM            

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Religious = Things we do to come to
understand or know about GOD.
Spirituality = To Experience an intimate
closeness to God or Knowing GOD

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posted April 23, 2011 02:55 AM            

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Originally posted by rajji:
Religious = Things we do to come to
understand or know about GOD.
Spirituality = To Experience an intimate
closeness to God or Knowing GOD

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Now can you please elaborate what GOD is in true sense how we can experience it??

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posted April 23, 2011 02:59 AM            

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Religion is God expressed culturally. Spirituality is God expressed internally.

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posted April 23, 2011 03:09 AM            

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for me...well I Have experienced GOD through many small things in life- like There was a day when so many red ants that crawled onto me nearly 100s of them within few seconds and to my amazement it took almost half an hour to completely get rid of them off me..but not a single ant bit me.

I can feel his presence when it rains..and so many instances where my mind and emotions and my inner being has experienced an overwhelming feeling of joy, love,gladness and peace.

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posted April 23, 2011 07:22 AM            

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Spirituality is the awareness of GOD's hand in everything within and without and religion is a path towards it, if followed genuinely and with proper understanding.

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posted April 23, 2011 09:59 AM            

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Moving this to Divine Diversities.

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~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Nikola Tesla
~There is no box.~H♥
~Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.~Felipe
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
~It is far better to regret wrong paths taken than to regret the paths not tried~Giselle
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posted April 23, 2011 11:35 AM            

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What SC said.

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"All deaths are suicides, do you realize that? Every single one. The only distinction is that, with some people, suicide is a subconscious choice, and with others it's a conscious choice. Otherwise, those who commit suicide and those who succumb to accident, illness or "old age," die for exactly the same reason: belief in the inevitability of death." Linda Goodman

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posted April 23, 2011 11:55 AM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:
Religion is God expressed culturally. Spirituality is God expressed internally.

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THAT IS PERFECT!
Are those your words or from elsewhere?
Either way, very good quote!

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~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Nikola Tesla
~There is no box.~H♥
~Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.~Felipe
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
~It is far better to regret wrong paths taken than to regret the paths not tried~Giselle
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posted April 26, 2011 07:16 PM            

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Lexx they are words I remembered. Meaning, I probably picked it up from somewhere.

It's perfect, isn't it?

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posted July 19, 2011 12:05 PM            

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*bump*

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"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." Aristotle

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posted July 19, 2011 01:59 PM            

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I strongly resonate with the below and thought this was an appropriate place to post this.

Going to "church"
It may suprise some people that when our family goes to church, for us, we go to Dad's pure creation - the ocean, mountains, rivers, and streams. For there we find spirit unsullied by the machinations of evil...of the network...and things are more pure. More REAL. Honest.

And life affirming.

THis is our daily bread. Connecting with Our Father First and Last. Then to his angelic creation. THe messengers. The elementals. Which are and always have been, wholly visible to us. As visible as your hand is to you.

FOr many years I've documented this reality. Mainly, to remind this world that being lost in the mundane and trivial -the illusions of Earth will have your life spent chasing ephemeral realities that in the end, count for nothing. That's your choice.

Because of this increasingly loving connection to Dad's Grace, Love, and COmpassion, by extension, His Creation has with it, that same connection point. All we do is bring our best selves - open, kind, sincere, without guile, and eager to love and be loved by, all that Dad has given this planet without letup. It's that simple. Then the doors open, stay open, with new doors opening all the time.

In the pics below. You see simple joy, translated wherever we go, being the children we seem to always be. You may call us idiot fools - or worse. Have it your way.

But we Love GOD, Our Father. And all he is, was and ever will be. It fills us with a simple peace and serenity. And His Creations responds to that.
http://wantsun.blogspot.com/

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posted July 27, 2011 01:31 PM            

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posted September 17, 2011 12:45 PM            

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*bump*

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I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order, as they should be.

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