The philosopher tries to fathom the origin of things but he also expects that philosophy will reconcile him with himself and the world. And in their view the religious life is merely an imperfect form of the moral life; while the moral life is destined when it attains its highest development to rise superior to all heteronomous dictation obeying no law from without or from above but governed solely by the law written in our hearts. Rishya Sringa, that boy of pristine purity, was enticed and deluded by the girls. Enjoying the spiritual bliss that arises out of spiritual practice, the spiritual Ananda, is akin to eating the cooked food. Dispassion is aided by discrimination or Viveka. The old sayings that "religion embraces the whole man" and that "religion occupies the central place in man's spirit" are not perhaps strictly accurate and at all events the important conclusions they involve have not been drawn from them; but they bear witness to the fact that men have long been convinced of the many-sided character of religion. It finally ended once and for all in 2012. On the contrary all this promotes the growth of religion compelling it to remould antiquated forms which injure it by clinging to old errors and to bring them into harmony with the needs of the age. But this occurred only after long struggles for the mastery. A. s do not *stay* away from drinking [one day at a. time] -- we *grow* away from drinking [one day at a time]. And further while no single function of man's inner life is exclusively active in science art and morality yet one or more is generally predominant—in one case the will in another the intellect and judgment in a third the imagination and emotions. The only question we attempted to answer was how man comes to be religious. Nay there is more than contact there is kinship between the religious the philosophical the poetical and the moral principles within us.
Yesterday's passage looked at amends to the family. The spiritual seeker should never forget to discriminate between the Real and the unreal. It would in that case belong either to the intellectual or to the æsthetic or to the ethical domain or it might be regarded as a transition from one of these domains to another. All this they leave to be done by the representatives of some form of religion which has outlived its time whose doctrine represents the views of life and the world held at the time of its foundation and which has thus fallen far below the level of the science and philosophy the knowledge of the world and the civilisation of a later age. The speaker for the weekend will be Don L. from Bellingham, WA.. Yet by taking sober direction we only help, not hinder, our own chances at more healthy relationships in future. But conversely without the inspiring breath of religion ethics must languish and sink to the level of a mere commonplace social morality.
Discover online or in-person meetings. What God has a right to expect from you: are you measuring up? While true morality incites us to seek and embrace the good for its own sake and because we love it and to reject the evil because we abhor it religion comes with its promises of reward and threats of punishment and thus taints pure morality with selfish motives. Please feel free to call Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort at (800-443-7008) to inquire about our special AA room rates. Subscribe to get the latest news, offers and special announcements. TWELVE CONCEPTS, p. 41.
Most of the amends i owe are living amends.
But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakeable foundation for life. But how religion is born within him is a somewhat different question. Living a spiritually conscious life is no mean feat. During the last fifty or sixty years a theory which the boldest free-thinker once scarcely dared to utter has been pretty loudly proclaimed in various quarters—the theory that mankind may henceforth live quite happily nay more happily than ever without religion.
I'm so grateful that I can be there for them and not be drunk and hung over. Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree. It is a challenging task. God's real providence has endowed us human beings with a considerable capability for foresight, and He evidently expects us to use it. Discriminative thinking, correct understanding, viewing things in perspective should become a habit of mind with him. So that scientists and philosophers alike to a certain extent also seek for contentment of soul. I got sober in August 2000. AA: Sober Village 2012 - Cancun, Mexico. 's basic text, Alcoholics Anonymous, he expanded them to twelve.