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Creation
God snapped ups all into existence about 6,000 years ago because that is what the Bible says. The Bible is legitimate because the Bible says that it is legitimate.

Evolution
The genome of all species has slowly evolved over millions and millions of years because that is what science has observed. Science is legitimate because numerous experts over the last century have studied the physical evidence and submitted their findings for peer scrutiny, then reached consensus.

Why is this even a debate?

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Spirituality

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There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Unknown

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You are not a kindergarten student of spirituality, so you must cease to think and speak as if you are a phenomenal object. You are the animating consciousness that provides sentience to the sentient being. You are the pure Awareness. You do not need to be liberated. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

You as Universal Consciousness are manifesting yourself as everything, but not split up into being an observer of your dsiplay. THe mirror is not experienceing it's reflections, the mirror is itself reflections. - Jackson Peterson

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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi

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May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

- John O'Donohue

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This is my simple religion. There is not need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our won heart is out temple; the philosophy is kindness. - The Dalai Lama

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Awakening is when One wakes up to realize that each being is an expression of Universal Consciousness, just as a wave is an expression of the ocean, each leaf an extension of a whole tree. - Unknown

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All religion,my friend, is simple evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allen Poe

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The Role of Spirituality

Fully functioning persons have a deep sense of spirituality. They know that the world in which they live cannot be explained or understood through human experience alone. They know that they must make the ‘mystical leap.’ They must go beyond themselves, beyond their limited reality. They have an inexplicable sense of something more. They feel a greater operative intellect than their own, even if they are at a loss to give it a name. They are aware of a great design, incessantly operative, in which all is compatible and in which there are no contradictions.

Life offers us few explanations. We cannot be certain of the true meaning of life, the source of life nor life after life. Only we can fill the void which this incertitude creates. We can either accept in faith or select nothingness. Both are the same. Both will involve mind games, for neither offer definitive proofs. This does not mean that answers do not exist.

Some of us are unable to live without answers. The void is too totally frightening, too devastating. So we must create answers for ourselves. Some of us choose to live without answers. We find them unnecessary. We live out our lives without asking questions, living into answers. Both ways require the creating of a belief system for which there is no validation. Either choice embodies a living sense of spirituality which arises from the affirmation of the self through personal choice itself.

Spirituality, faith and mystery are inherent in every aspect of life.

To be in touch with nature, to feel deeply its moods, to experience fully its sorcery, to know how so-called ‘inanimate’ things work, is to become caught up in the spirituality and divinity of all things.

The spirit of each person and thing is present even if we are too asleep to experience it, even if we deny its existence. Spirituality involves an awareness of all there is and an openness to what is not. It is the strength and fearlessness to allow ourselves to transcend reality and ourselves.

- Unknown

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You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here and the existence would not have helped you to be here, wouldn’t have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental as you are!

You are eternal Consciousness, currently in this wonderful physical body for the thrill and exhilaration of specific focus and creation. The physical being that you define as 'you' stands on the Leading Edge of thought, while Consciousness, which is really your Source, pours through you. And in those moments of inexpressible elation, those are the times when you are wide open and truly allowing your Source to express through you.

Give yourself permission to Trust your Higher Self and then simply begin doing so. Accept your mistakes, learn from them and you turn them into lessons. Don't let doubt hold you back. Take a deep breath and just keep walking.

The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are.

We're all at different levels of our own development and evolution. What works for one person, certainly doesn't have to work for everyone else.

- Unknown

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