After a phenomenal discussion on our 2nd religious pilgrimage, I asked the students to write a succinct one to two sentence take away from our outing(s). I thought it might be interesting for you to read.
Pilgrimage #2 takeaway: (Buddhist and Hindu Temple)
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Religious are wonderfully different.
By knowing more you’re seeing more.
I don’t know how it’s going to work and how I’m gonna get there, but what I believe I know, that’s faith and through God and faith I’m gonna get to where I need to be.
We may have different beliefs or practice different religions, but still we are all people and human.
By knowing more about other religions you become closer with other people.
The more we don’t know about someone, the more we dehumanize them.
Discipline can draw us closer.
Religion is yet a great way to get closer to spiritual realm and can live life in peace and love and giving to others. At the same time Religion is like a war, a battle within.
The absence of knowledge is fear.
We have different beliefs, yet we are all human.
Differences can be beautiful.
A few other quotes we have been discussing:
“What if, instead of casting ourselves as people who can explain God to others, we viewed our lives as a void into which God speaks?” –Selmanovich
“Religion is not the pearl, but the shell that holds the pearl.” –Samir Selmanovich
“The human heart is an idol-making factory.” — John Calvin
“God rid me of God”. –Meister Eckhart