a beautiful and true quote
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brightlotusmoon"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."
- Albert Einstein
This is one of the reasons why Druidism fascinates me so. The god of Druids is nature, the world: trees, sky, fire, wind, water, earth. Spirit and love. Other people. Yourself. You don't need someone telling you how to believe -- you just... believe. You just have faith. You can give that faith a name, a face, a gender. You can turn that faith into human-faced beings or faceless entities. You can turn that faith into a breath of air, a flicker of fire, a drop of water, a touch of earth. It can be anything and everything. It doesn't have to be a man-shaped entity who rules your life. It doesn't have to be a book. It doesn't have to be what someone else tells you. But sometimes it is. And sometimes it is not.
A friend of mine, who is Druid and studied Latin, says that the word "religion" comes from the Latin word "rely" -- to rely on something. Then, my religion is the world and the universe and the power of nature. And myself.
Me.
Mine.
I am my own faith.
And the things that are part of my faith have faces and names and genders and shapes, but it still always boils down to faith.
That's why I get so upset what anyone tries to convert me or push their beliefs on me. It's not what I want. It's not what I need. It's not who I am.
Who am I? I'm me. That's all. Just me.
- Albert Einstein
This is one of the reasons why Druidism fascinates me so. The god of Druids is nature, the world: trees, sky, fire, wind, water, earth. Spirit and love. Other people. Yourself. You don't need someone telling you how to believe -- you just... believe. You just have faith. You can give that faith a name, a face, a gender. You can turn that faith into human-faced beings or faceless entities. You can turn that faith into a breath of air, a flicker of fire, a drop of water, a touch of earth. It can be anything and everything. It doesn't have to be a man-shaped entity who rules your life. It doesn't have to be a book. It doesn't have to be what someone else tells you. But sometimes it is. And sometimes it is not.
A friend of mine, who is Druid and studied Latin, says that the word "religion" comes from the Latin word "rely" -- to rely on something. Then, my religion is the world and the universe and the power of nature. And myself.
Me.
Mine.
I am my own faith.
And the things that are part of my faith have faces and names and genders and shapes, but it still always boils down to faith.
That's why I get so upset what anyone tries to convert me or push their beliefs on me. It's not what I want. It's not what I need. It's not who I am.
Who am I? I'm me. That's all. Just me.
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