Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
Interpretation
The way we handle differing religious beliefs reflects our own spiritual confidence.
This quote suggests that the extent to which we can accept and tolerate religious expressions that differ from our own is an indicator of how secure and confident we feel in our own beliefs. When someone is spiritually secure, they are less likely to feel threatened by opposing views and can appreciate the diversity of thought in religious expression.
In practice
During a panel discussion on interfaith relationships, this quote could be used to highlight the importance of acceptance.
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.
Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.
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