Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The premise of this principle is that meaningless thoughts show us a meaningless world. The key question is "where does the search for truth and meaning take us?"
Comedian, Flip Wilson, when he did his Geraldine routine, would say in a saucy way, "What you see is what you get." I change it to "What you think you see is what you get."
The fact of the matter is that we develop certain psychological sets and project our beliefs out into the world and create what we think we see. If you think you are a bad person and the world is a bad place, then bad things will happen to you. If you think you are a good person and the world is a good place, then good things will happen to you.
Is the glass half full or have empty? Do you have enough or are you lacking? Are you pretty and handsome or blemished and ugly?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder we have been told, as well as that it is only skin deep.
You can't tell a book by its cover we have been told, and we are encouraged to not only read it but read between the lines.
It is written in Lesson 11 in the workbook for students in A Course In Miracles, "My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world." In other words, the path of the ego is a path of nonsense. The path of the ego is a path of inanity and insanity.
When we realize the drama we create by projecting our thoughts and beliefs out into the world, we realize that there must be a better way. Indeed there is and it begins with forgiving ourselves and others for our stupid thoughts and beliefs. At the end of our life, and when our souls are pried lose from our bodies, we realize, then, if not before, what is really important.
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Monday, April 30, 2018
Meaningless thoughts show me a meaningless world
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
What is the end of the world?
The Unitarian Universalist preacher said from the pulpit that the goal of UUs is not to get people into heaven but heaven into people. UUs believe in heaven on earth. It is not some other place one journeys to but right here, right now, among us.
A person was telling me last week about the apocalypse, the end of the world. It was a story full of judgment and punishment that he claims his church taught him.
I smiled and listened. I didn't say it but was thinking, "Golly gee, what kind of a God is it that this church is promoting? What kind of a world is this church painting a picture of?"
I said to this fellow at the end of his description, "Wow, that's some story."
He said, "So, are you saved?"
I said, "Oh, yes."
He said, "Good. God bless you."
And indeed, I am saved by a God of Love and forgiveness not the gods of vengeance, judgment, condemnation, and punishment.
Forgiveness is necessary for churches who teach such nonsense, and their missionaries who promote and spread their misguided teachings about a vengeful, judgmental, condemning, and punishing God who is a projection of this God's believers own guilt, suffering and anguish.
With this forgiveness comes a compassion which is not condescending or patronizing, but rather is empathic and understands the pain which contributes to such warped and distorted beliefs.
God is Unconditional Love and generates a gratefulness for existence and an extension of peace and joy into the world.
The Atonement is when everybody loves everybody all the time and when this occurs the end of time will have come because there will no longer we any need for the world of the ego in which we must learn the lessons of the spirit. We all will become one with all of existence, God.
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