Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
You can’t buy your way into insights, nor sell it to others.
When you do this, the intellectual property isn’t truly yours, and suggests the insight hasn’t yet undergone a journey through your soul.
A desire to commoditize insights feeds the ego, and creates the illusion of understanding what you have bought or sold.
David R. Hawkins • 5 highlights
bookshop.org“The obvious opportunity,” he said, “is to build a new religion.”
I just kind of know that there’s a Universal Consciousness, that we’re all a part of it, and that the world is more magical than we’ve been led to believe.
This is not my own idea. It’s not even a new idea. It’s a very old one. This is what Jesus was saying, and the Buddha, and Rumi. It is the Perennial Philosophy: all major religious and spiritual
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