You are conscious beings, so , be aware of that and get out of your deep slumber.
The religious speak of waking, but here we are talking about awakening.
They know well how they bewitch us with their misinterpretations of the precepts.
In order not to lose us completely, they ask us to stay awake until we are under their total control.
Karl Marx said: Religion is the opium for the people.
Dr. Froylan Alvarado Guemez Pierre Teilhard Chardin wants to free us from their spell.
Born in Orcines on May 1, 1881 and died in New York on April 10, 1995. Theologian, philosopher and paleontologist French, he built with his thinking an integrated vision of science and mysticism; of the evolution of the mind and thought.
▪Religion is not only one, there are hundreds.
▪Spirituality is one.
▪Religion is for those who sleep.
▪Spirituality is for those who are awake.
▪Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and who want to be guided.
▪Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.
For that, one must know the true method for this introspection and to know why one enters it.
F.Rimpel
▪Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
▪Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.
Take control of our mind to listen to the voice of our soul. F.R
▪Religion threatens and scares.
▪Spirituality gives inner peace.
▪Religion speaks of sin and guilt.
▪Spirituality says, “learn from error”.
▪Religion represses everything and in some cases it is false.
▪Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!
▪Religion speaks of a god; It’s not God.
▪Spirituality is everything and therefore it is in God.
▪Religion invents.
▪Spirituality finds.
To find, you have to know how to search, who to ask, why and what for. FR
▪Religion does not tolerate any question.
▪Spirituality questions everything.
▪Religion is human, it is an organization with masculine rules.
▪Spirituality is divine, without human rules.
▪Religion is the cause of divisions.
▪Spirituality unites.
▪Religion tries to make you believe.
▪Spirituality, you have to look for it to believe it.
This belief must culminate in understanding and then knowledge. We can not believe all our life, otherwise, we do not advance. And, who does not advance, retreat. F.R
▪Religion follows the precepts of a sacred book.
▪Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.
To finally find it really within the body temple. (Christ said:The kingdom of God is within you.)
▪Religion feeds on fear.
▪Spirituality nourishes trust and faith.
▪Religion lives in thought.
▪Spirituality lives in the consciousness.
To be conscious is to ignore the mind to listen to the path of one’s soul, hence the introspection. F.R
▪Religion is about doing.
▪Spirituality has to do with the self.
Salvation is personal. F.R
▪Religion feeds the ego.
▪Spirituality pushes to transcend.
▪Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a god.
▪Spirituality makes us live in God without denying ourselves.
▪Religion is another kind of superstition.
▪Spirituality is meditation.
That is to say, to become aware and to put into application what we have gathered, against all odds.
▪Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.
▪Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise here and now.
Because our final destination is in heavens that religion does not have access.
▪Religion lives in the past and in the future.
▪Spirituality lives in the present.
▪Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
▪Spirituality frees our consciousness.
▪Religion makes us believe in eternal life.
▪Spirituality makes us aware of eternal life.
▪Religion promises life after death.
▪Spirituality is about finding God in our interior during life and death.
We exist to prepare life that is not here. F.R
–We are not human beings who live a spiritual experience.
-We are spiritual beings going through a human experience.-
With this paradigm shift, our understanding of sacred writings will be more understandable and will not lead to misinterpretation.
In a nutshell, religion is addictive and stressful while spirituality is the freedom to believe in God without any conditions.
* To meditate without passion *
The above message should not be equivocal.
Many sects and religious denominations say they do spirituality.
See below how the dictionary explains the different approaches.
To each to determine where he is and seek the true path.
You will see that Mysticism is the one that is closer to true spirituality, not to be confused with spiritism.
F.R