ANCHORED OR NOT?

Is there a need to be anchored in one faith tradition or religion?... That is a timely question in this day and age when many opt for no religious practice.
Here are the advantages of being anchored in one or more faith tradition or religion.
A faith tradition when well understood and well presented, answers basic human needs:  1) the need to worship with others  2)  the need for real community where one is supported.
The timely questions should be: Is my religion answering the basic needs of its people? How can I  help? Is my view universal?
N.B.   For those who are disappointed with their own faith tradition or religion, consider what the wise Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh recommends: investigate the real, often lost teachings of your own faith tradition  and bloom.


All the world's faiths do not see the sacred as simply Something "out there" but as a Reality that is encountered in the depths of our own being.   Karren Armstrong

A ship anchored is safe, but that is not the purpose of a ship.   Anonymous

When we work together we progress together in understanding and compassion.   Wisdom Teacher

We should all exercise our gift to build community...Jean Vanier

 Religion ties us to our own dept, which is one with the fathomless dept from which the whole universe wells up.   David Steindl-Rast

 People cannot be happy if they are rootless.    Thich Nhat Hanh

 Many traditional religious practices have the effect of mediating the sacred and bringing about an opening of the heart.    Marcus Borg

 "Meister Eckhart calls us to go "beyond religion" as structure, dogma, institution, sectarian tribe and ethnic identity to something more internal.." .Matthew Fox  from his book MEISTER ECKHART, 2014 



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