Some positives about having a view of life that includes God:



Less emphasis on the body, its trials and tribulations.

The ability to let go of the thoughts of the world/ego, and transcend the world (peak experience, cosmic consciousness).

Increasing inner peace regardless of outer circumstances.

Ability to see all people as children of God and forgiving our enemies.

Knowing that no matter what happens to us, we're never alone.

Increasing moments of serendipity and meaningful coincidences, seeing the connection between our thoughts and the outer world.

You make everything sound so easy and peaceful here. If it were only that easy to forgive our enemies then there would be no reason for war etc... wouldn't ya just like to wave a wand and say let there be peace in the world like god always wanted

Those were excellent, angeleyes! Thank you.

More, please!

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for many people who had no direction or purpose in life, were gang members, druggies, alcoholics, violent, materialistic, alone, and/or was selfish, it gave them a new life from the former.

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Being able to identify and gather with like minded people (organized religion)

A place to organized humanitarian efforts, like the ones we saw after Katrina. Especially when a person doesn't know how to donate on their own.

Other benefits:

Knowing that death is not the end of life.

Knowing that there is a purpose/order to everything and that we are an integral part of that purpose.

We don't have to think we're crazy when we have spiritual or "other-worldly" experiences.

Through myth, metaphor, and poetry we have the opportunity to get it touch with our deeper self.

Religion gives us the opportunity to look are ourselves and forgive and or be forgiven.

Religion can help us be in touch with our shadow and incorportate it into our being.

Religion can help us to stop accusing others of our own unseen faults.

Religion gives our unconcious mind the opportunity to be alive and recognized.

Religion can help us be of higher consciousness.

Religion can give us hope of finding our higher being.

Religion allows us the opportunity to identify with the journey of others and those who came before us.

Religion can remind us that the ancients had the same struggles and goals that we have.

Religion can remind us to love and respect others.

Religion can help us through sad and difficult times.

Religion can give us hope.

Religion gives us the opportunity to separate fact from fantasy. This is done by not stopping at a certain point but by continuing to search.

Religion can assist us in finding and developing our own talents.

Religion allows us the opportunity to contemplate.

Religion can be a springboard into universal thought.

Religion gives a good picture of our "inner" world. Religion recognizes that the "inner" world is just as important as the "outer" world.

Religion give us the opportunity to balance these two worlds and aids them in working together.

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Thanks LK I kinda really needed a few of these today especially the 2nd one on forgiving yourself its always the hardest and the hardest thing i am going thru right now ..

Starting to finally understand the way god and religion works thanks again

Religion takes us out of our I, me, mine mode if we let it.

The Avatars have always stressed God's love for all creation and suggested that because He loves all, we should also do this. (All revealed religion has a golden rule about how to treat others.) I don't think we'd come to that conclusion on our own because we live each in his own skin. Religion teaches us that it's really all the same skin.

So, I think the chief benefit is the concept of unity that imbues every revelation. The very word religion means to "bind together or unite."

Maya

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"Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul." -- Abdu'l-Bahá

Another benfit would be religion and god will provide you with strength and happiness that a person wouldn't get from anyone else.


It makes a person feel a sense of belonging .
It gives us a better knowledge of ourselves.

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