Happy Easter

by Michael Mamas | Sunday, April 8, 2012 | Spirituality | 8 comments

“For Christ is Risen and all the earth’s at play”

The Evolution of Religion

by Michael Mamas | Saturday, April 7, 2012 | Spirituality | 3 comments

Sigmond Freud said, “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”

Adi Shankara called the spiritual path the path of discernment.  As one discerns, ones understanding evolves.  To evolve means to change.  If one clings to old understandings, discernment ceases and evolution is obstructed.  Dogma then prevails.  If that is done, religion stagnates and is then rejected by those who discern.

Use knowledge to evolve your spiritual understanding.  When done with wisdom, humility, and grace this process does not mark the decline of religion but the blossoming of it.

To discard the old all together is to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but to use knowledge to evolve ones understanding is to separate the wheat from the chaff.

In my opinion…

by Michael Mamas | Thursday, April 5, 2012 | Spirituality | 1 comment

“People with opinions just go around bothering each other.”  – Buddhist Quote

I like this quote.  Life is paradox.

Enjoy the Cosmic Joke…  It’s everywhere.

Conscience

by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | Spirituality | 2 comments

The following quote is only true after the soul is free of conditioning.  Prior to that time, conscience is largely a product of distorted notions of God.
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“Conscience is God’s presence in man.”
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emancipation from limitation reveals your God to you.
Conditioned conscience is karma.
Emancipated conscience is God’s whispers of your dharma.
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Yet the latter is attained through the portal of the former…
Just as the swan filters the milk from the water.

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You must start where you are.
Life is all about having a healthy relationship with…
Evolution is the path of paradox.