You Do Not Have To

A Religious Belief Is Not A Statement About Reality, But A Hint, A Clue About Something That Is A Mystery, Beyond The Grasp Of Human Thought. In Short, A Religious Belief Is Only A Finger Pointing To The Moon. Some Religious People Never Get Beyond The Study Of The Finger. Others Are Engaged In Sucking It. Others Yet Use The Finger To Gouge Their Eyes Out. These Are The Bigots Whom Religion Has Made Blind. Rare Indeed Is The Religionist Who Is Sufficiently Detached From The Finger To See What It Is Indicating - These Are Those Who, Having Gone Beyond Belief, Are Taken For Blasphemers.

There Is No Explanation You Can Give That Will Explain Away All The Sufferings And Evil And Torture And Destruction And Hunger In The World! You'll Never Explain It. Because Life Is A Mystery, Which Means Your Thinking Mind Cannot Make Sense Of It. For That You've Got To Wake Up And Then You'll Suddenly Realize That Reality Is Not The Problem, You Are The Problem.

May The Peace Of God Disturb You Always.

If You Make Me Your Authority, You Harm Yourself Because You Will Not See Things For Yourself, And You Harm Me Too Because You Refuse To See Me As I Am.

Sinners Often Speak The Truth. And Saints Have Led People Astray. Examine What Is Said, Not The One Who Says It.