Respect Only Has Meaning As Respect For

When The Horror Recedes And The World Resumes Its Normal Shape, You Cannot Forget It. You Have Seen What Is Really There, The Empty Horror That Exists When The Consoling Illusion Of Our Mundane Experience Is Stripped Away, So You Can Never Respond To The World In Quite The Same Way Again.

Like Art, Religion Is An Imaginative And Creative Effort To Find A Meaning And Value In Human Life.

If We Try To Hold On To Our Partial Glimpses Of The Divine, We Cut It Down To Our Own Size And Close Our Minds. Like It Or Nor, Our Human Experience Of Anything Or Anybody Is Always Incomplete: There Is Usually Something That Eludes Us, Some Portion Of Experience That Evades Our Grasp.

Deeds That Seemed Unimportant At The Time Would Prove To Have Been Momentous; A Tiny Act Of Selfishness And Unkindness Or, Conversely, An Unconsidered Act Of Generosity Would Become The Measure Of A Human Life.

Religious People Often Prefer To Be Right Rather Than Compassionate. Often, They Don't Want To Give Up Their Egotism. They Want Their Religion To Endorse Their Ego, Their Identity.