 24 Mar 2007 @ 18:46, by Unknown
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can "flow" or it can "crash"!
----Bruce Lee
Through our beliefs we fix onto a particular perspective of reality and filter out those facets of reality that disagree with our views of how things are.
Inner awakening and/or expansion of consciousness involve stepping back from beliefs and assumptions. Yet too often our need for security leads us to turn our paths of liberation into yet another belief.
Chistobella (Alice Krige) in Silent Hill
We turn our spiritual discoveries into doctrines and dogmas. We create another church.
Holding on to a belief is the antithesis of spiritual development. The "new age" that we truly aspire to is not a new age founded upon some new set of beliefs---a new set of doctrines and dogmas. But an age in which our minds are free from prejudice, and our hearts are free from judgement.
Such an age would indeed be new.
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