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My personal spiritual philosophy is this...
That which breathes everything breathes me as well. I do not believe any power that is omnipotent or omnipresent has a use for judgement or punishment and I do my best to live a life of acceptance, love and understanding for all and feel that God/The Universe/The All, or whatever label we wish to call It, does the same. I try and see the Divinity in all things and to honor this Divinity in Me by living an honorable life and a life of gratitude.
My personal spiritual philosophy is this...
That which breathes everything breathes me as well. I do not believe any power that is omnipotent or omnipresent has a use for judgement or punishment and I do my best to live a life of acceptance, love and understanding for all and feel that God/The Universe/The All, or whatever label we wish to call It, does the same. I try and see the Divinity in all things and to honor this Divinity in Me by living an honorable life and a life of gratitude.
As for the spirituality of One Community as a whole, it is one beyond non-denomination. To truly understand this and what the community is committed to, read the pages on what genuine community is, the pages on values, the pages on being, and the pages on One Community Philosophy. Living and honoring each other the way we do IS our spirituality and our dedication to the principles described on those pages are what take us beyond tolerance, which implies something that requires tolerating, to true acceptance of the beauty and necessity of diversity we all grow from. We let go of the need to convince, heal or change those around us and from this place of true acceptance and freedom to be who we are we share our highest gift and experience the highest gift of our fellow human beings: the gift of everyone being themselves.
This does not mean community members don't share their differing views on spirituality, it just means they share from a place of acceptance and gratitude for diversity. It means we share with a desire to understand one another without wishing anyone be different, changed, or persuaded by what we share and it means we share and learn with unconditional love because we know we are all unique and uniquely connected.
Relevant to thoughts of Oneness Kabir said "All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."
A very famous quote by Teilhard de Chardin is "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
And a very beautiful summary by the Dalai Lama "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
