Quote Motion #2

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

Which we ascribe to heaven.        

– William Shakespeare

Religion, if curiously examined, reveals itself to be more of the expression of man’s fears and doubts than his adoration ad veneration of the higher forces or beings superior than he. Though religion started out as man’s worship of forces, when his senses were overwhelmed by such occurrence as the light and heat of the sun, thunder, rain, lightening, day and night and life and death. His knowledge of high controlling forces undermined his knowledge of himself. He thought if there were some powerful beings up in the heavens, or deep in the belly of the seas and ocean, who could bring about times and seasons and control life and death, or drought as in the case of the ocean-gods, then there must be a high force which could turn his fortune around. And as man’s world became complex and his problems became varied and complicated, man’s tendency to look towards heaven – towards the gods, or God – went beyond bounds! Words of prayer, religious ceremonies and rituals became constant practices to draw down grace as remedies for the problems he seem incapable to solve. Meanwhile deep within man himself lie the power and capacity to solve his own problems if he only wills.

The error of religion is that it has robbed man of his own glory, of his own power and capabilities. Religion has reduced man to the unfair status of a pious beggar, and until he casts off this ignoble image and then function in the truth of himself, he would continue to disturb the peaceful heavens for remedies to problems for which his mind is equipped to tackle.

The solutions we crave for lie in us. If we reach into the creative power resident in us, which GOD placed in us, we will call up ideas and solutions for our problems. And then instead of letting up entreaties and petitions to the heavens for bread and butter, we would utter words of thanksgiving for the resources granted us to make bread and butter.