Services are held at 9:15 & 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Some claiming to be very religious, may not be very religious at all; while others who don’t consider themselves that religious, may be the most religious of all. If religion is just a set of ideas and habits, if it’s merely something ancient that’s been passed down to us, as it’s often considered, maybe the traditionalists have it right. But if it’s something unique to each one of us, something beyond our beliefs and habits, something genuine and new that can only belong to ourselves, then religion may be most profoundly present within those we’d least expect.
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Well said. Reminds me of Michael Singer’s thesis in “The Unteathered Soul.” Namely, that the problems in the world outside us come from the psyche, the world inside us, and that the only solution is improving our own consciousness, knowing our real Self through awareness of our awareness. Sort of like Jesus’s reported advice about getting he log out of our own eye before obsessing about the mote in our neighbor’s eye. Maybe that’s why it’s easier to slap a fish skeleton on one’s car than picking up the cross of mindfulness.