Atheist here - and in my teen years an obnoxious one. If I’m honest with myself the presence or absence of god doesn’t impact any of
The decisions I make, which doesn’t mean I don’t marvel at the moon, love contemplating paradoxes, or do a good tarot spread. Consciousness still intrigues me, and I may concede that the universe itself may be conscious. But these days I’m more interested in who/what god is to you and how you live your life. No one has all the answers and I love that we can view the world in so many different ways.
I relate to this in many ways, and am still working on not caring what others think of my spirituality or inability to fit my belief in God neatly into a box. I came across this quote recently and appreciate the freedom it suggests, to just feel what you feel, without the need to explain or understand --
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
-Kahlil Gibran
Sending you love, and thank you as always for your honesty <3
loved this. it's taken me 30 years to reconcile my relationship with God. as a child I believed deeply in the idea that something, some benevolent being, listened to us and took our desires into consideration. I prayed alone in my closet, hoping desperately that God was non denominational and that my Jewishness was acceptable. I moved through nihilism and atheism as a teenager, then slowly back towards agnostic, and then had a (fully sober) psychedelic spiritual experience during a lunar eclipse and felt so much intimate interconnectedness that I could only name it as God. that's sort of where I'm at right now. God as beauty and grief and love and every fractal, every synchronicity, every atom and star cluster. God as poetry.
I'm somewhere in the middle of agnostic and atheist. Organized religion is what really sticks in my craw as well as those who spout outrageous drivel in their ridiculous efforts to justify the horrendous suffering in the world. That people suffer, horribly, cannot ever be justified. Full stop...
I applaud and admire YOUR journey, Isabelle. And anyone else's on the topic of spirituality. What and how people believe, is their business.
To each their own, so long as it doesn't cross the line of trying to imply that my beliefs, or rather, my doubts / my unbelief's, are invitations to derision or condemnation or hate.
Atheist here - and in my teen years an obnoxious one. If I’m honest with myself the presence or absence of god doesn’t impact any of
The decisions I make, which doesn’t mean I don’t marvel at the moon, love contemplating paradoxes, or do a good tarot spread. Consciousness still intrigues me, and I may concede that the universe itself may be conscious. But these days I’m more interested in who/what god is to you and how you live your life. No one has all the answers and I love that we can view the world in so many different ways.
I relate to this in many ways, and am still working on not caring what others think of my spirituality or inability to fit my belief in God neatly into a box. I came across this quote recently and appreciate the freedom it suggests, to just feel what you feel, without the need to explain or understand --
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
-Kahlil Gibran
Sending you love, and thank you as always for your honesty <3
Truly beautiful, your reflections deeply resonate! 🙏🏻💯☀️
loved this. it's taken me 30 years to reconcile my relationship with God. as a child I believed deeply in the idea that something, some benevolent being, listened to us and took our desires into consideration. I prayed alone in my closet, hoping desperately that God was non denominational and that my Jewishness was acceptable. I moved through nihilism and atheism as a teenager, then slowly back towards agnostic, and then had a (fully sober) psychedelic spiritual experience during a lunar eclipse and felt so much intimate interconnectedness that I could only name it as God. that's sort of where I'm at right now. God as beauty and grief and love and every fractal, every synchronicity, every atom and star cluster. God as poetry.
I'm somewhere in the middle of agnostic and atheist. Organized religion is what really sticks in my craw as well as those who spout outrageous drivel in their ridiculous efforts to justify the horrendous suffering in the world. That people suffer, horribly, cannot ever be justified. Full stop...
I applaud and admire YOUR journey, Isabelle. And anyone else's on the topic of spirituality. What and how people believe, is their business.
To each their own, so long as it doesn't cross the line of trying to imply that my beliefs, or rather, my doubts / my unbelief's, are invitations to derision or condemnation or hate.