{"id":1982,"date":"2018-09-11T04:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2018-09-30T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T13:50:20","slug":"i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/i-believe","title":{"rendered":"I Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I confess: I do indeed believe.<\/h3>\n

I believe in Beauty<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

because beauty brings motivation to believe in myself\u00a0and live this life.<\/p>\n

No beauty, no me.<\/p>\n

I believe in beauty because I feel such. Firsthand.<\/p>\n

What else can I do?<\/p>\n

I mean: look at this world.<\/p>\n

I believe in Beauty, as I believe in beauty of many, many things and people, including myself. And so:<\/p>\n

I believe in Me.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not just as self-confidence, an obvious thought.<\/p>\n

Yes we all can, if we believe in ourselves. But there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n

I believe in Myself as a being worthy to Live. Ha! A life that is infinitely interesting even if it would last only a few more minutes.<\/p>\n

Yep. I believe in life\u2026 and in anything possible to enhance it.<\/p>\n

I believe in growth. I believe in the future. I believe in Me. Firsthand.<\/p>\n

What else can I do?<\/p>\n

Not just the little \u2018me\u2019, of course!<\/p>\n

I mean the big \u2018Me\u2019. The one that I encounter for instance in meditation. The one that I keep falling into until I don\u2019t know whether I\u2019m beyond the end of Me.\u00a0The one that the little \u2018me\u2019 is completely in awe for.\u00a0The one towards which the little \u2018me\u2019 doesn\u2019t mind whether it\u2019s about love or Love, beauty or Beauty, Me or Anything.<\/p>\n

And including all:<\/p>\n

I believe in Love.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Old-German: \u2018be-lieben\u2019, where \u2018Liebe\u2019 is German again for \u2018love\u2019. Etymology is sometimes so clarifying, no?\u00a0And so nice: the word \u2018believe\u2019 itself, pointing to love, shows perfectly what it\u2019s eventually about.\u00a0Who would have thought so? Who could have doubted?<\/p>\n

Religion has of course always been about the feeling<\/em>\u2026 until we forgot<\/p>\n

and went on thinking it was about God.<\/p>\n

For instance: for ancient Egyptians, it was clearly about the feeling<\/em> during thousands of years. Long before any present-day religion even started.<\/p>\n

How far did we go?<\/p>\n

I believe in Love and that belief is the most essential I can imagine.<\/p>\n

I believe in Love because I feel it firsthand.<\/p>\n

What else can I do?<\/p>\n

Nothing.<\/p>\n

And God?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I believe God is Love. God is Beauty. God is Me. All this or whichever one prefers or yet Something Else.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter. And that is perfectly OK. I am all at peace. Shoot me if you want. I won\u2019t ever say anything different.<\/p>\n

Some clouds in the sky are floating by.<\/p>\n

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