The point of religious practice or a belief system is to set you free. If it is not doing that, it has become a hindrance to you that you should examine and maybe abandon. Remember, whatever your practice – Yoga, prayer, being part of a church, or reading sacred Scripture – was there originally to lead you to God and to liberation. Any time your practice becomes an end in itself, it fails to fully achieve its purpose, which is to set you free, even from itself. If that happens, you should ...
I will protect your shadow even though when it’s dark it slips
I’ll clean your window, make you look out and see scenery
I am a stranger, shouldn’t talk to myself in times of rearrangement or even in good mental health
And on the other side soon they’ll side with their family who hides from all the evil within their own bloodline
But you fly a different kite hovering over their heads so high
I will ...
I was gonna give you all of my timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna go and get you more timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna give you more and more timeI ain’t lyingI was gonna give you loads of more time ...
Don’t be afraid to let your faith and beliefs evolve. Everything in us is geared toward figuring out all the “right” things to believe and then defending them and promoting them as what everyone else needs to believe, like they’re perfect in their current form and don’t need any revision or reformation. But the real truth is being uncovered, it is evolving and it is conversation. It’s not that the truth is changing necessarily; it’s that it is still emerging. You’ve just ...
There is nothing wrong with having some working idea of what you believe about the world. Just know you are wrong or, at the very least, not finished learning. Come to some conclusions, but hold those conclusions softly. Soon, you will be presented with information that challenges what you think you “know”. If your grip is too tight on your current assumptions, you will not listen well and you will spend a lot of energy furiously defending the things you think you need to believe.
It is tempting ...