Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.