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Bs! - The Fundamental Difference Between Religion And Spirituality

Religion can loosely be described as theindeed connected to God. This is a personal
formalized ideas held by a group of people torelationship to God and an insight that you
define their understanding of God and theirdon't need to go to a special building to
relationship to the creator and creation. Infind God, but that you simply have to look
some shape or form, religion has been presentdeep within yourself. It means that you don't
in human civilizations since the beginning ofneed some special person with a college
time. Throughout history cultural developmenteducation to lead you to God, but that you
has been inextricably linked to people's viewsimply have to turn inwards to find divine
of the world and their relationship to theguidance.
mysterious and the unknown dimension of life
that we've come to call God. Religion hasIt's been said that you can't get wet from
taken on many different forms and manythe word water and however strange the idea
different views in many different cultures.is, it is very true for many people's
The one common idea is that the religion willspiritual journeys. Until and unless you dive
collectively value, uphold and even impose ain and make personal contact with God by
set of beliefs which they consider the pathturning inwards and following your inner
to God and 'the truth' about this mysterious,guidance your life will always be dictated by
yet  ever  present  force  of  life.other people's ideas - ideas that are mostly
designed to keep you thinking and acting like
Along with religion, came a certain level ofeverybody  else.
power - especially for those who 'made the
rules' and who were believed to be appointedTrue freedom comes from this personal
by God to rule the people. In the earlyrelationship to God and knowing that you
Christian church, the religious leaders weredon't need to be saved, that you are in fact
also the politicians and they ruled by fear,born a good person and that God cares about
violently imposing their ideas upon theyou regardless of whether you comply to some
people. You were told what to believe and howreligion's rules. Spirituality will lead you
to behave in virtually every aspect of life.to the realization that you are whole,
There was absolutely no room for reallycomplete and magnificent in every possible
getting to know God, because those whoway and that you are unique and special with
claimed to know God were the only one who canyour own grand mission in life. Your purpose
speak  to  God,  and  be  spoken  to  by God.in life in not to live up to the expectations
of other in order to be a good person, but
Some of the earliest meaning of the wordrather to live up to the expectations of your
religion comes from a Latin interpretationSelf, your spirit (or your soul) and to
that means 'to bind' - an bind it did,become, in form, the kind of person you were
keeping people tied to silly ideas fordestined  to  be.
centuries. Religious ideas have been
developed and refined for centuries and isYou can get to know God for yourself. It will
almost exclusively designed to keep peoplelead you to the realization that you are in
from stepping out of line and 'beingfact "God' - you are a part of God and
different'. The fundamental differencecontain within you a portion of this Divine
between spirituality and religion is thatforce that makes up the very essence of life.
religion is based on knowing ABOUT God, whileListen to other people, hear them out and
spirituality is based on KNOWING God on adiscover their view of God, but then go
personal  level.within and find God for yourself. This is
where all the power is. This is where the
There's a big difference between knowingfreedom lies and if you need a religion to
about God and knowing God. Knowing about Godhelp you develop your understanding of God,
is about intellectual knowledge and relyingthen practice it! Remember to keep and open
on the testimonials and experiences ofmind and don't just focus only on what you
others, while knowing God is a deeplyare told about God but rather what you feel
personal and 'inner knowing' that you areto be true deep down inside.



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