Modern religions take a view of their responsibilities as these to be dragging down God to the level of man. This may lead to decay. Man should not be degraded to worldly slavery, but should be raised up to God.
We must not look down upon with contempt on others. All of us are going towards the same goal. The difference between weakness and strength is one of degree; the difference between virtue and vice is one of degree; the difference between heaven and hell is one of degree; the difference between life and death is one of degree; and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. All is One, which manifests Itself either as thought, or life, or soul, or body, and the difference is only in degree. As such, we have no right to look down with contempt upon those who are developed exactly in the same degree as we are. Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, let them go their own way. Dragging down and condemning is not the way to work. Never is work accomplished in that way. We spend our energies in condemning others. Criticism and condemnation is a vain way of spending our energies, for in the long run we come to learn that all are seeing the same thing, are more or less approaching the same ideal, and that most of our differences are merely differences of expression.
We must not look down upon with contempt on others. All of us are going towards the same goal. The difference between weakness and strength is one of degree; the difference between virtue and vice is one of degree; the difference between heaven and hell is one of degree; the difference between life and death is one of degree; and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. All is One, which manifests Itself either as thought, or life, or soul, or body, and the difference is only in degree. As such, we have no right to look down with contempt upon those who are developed exactly in the same degree as we are. Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, let them go their own way. Dragging down and condemning is not the way to work. Never is work accomplished in that way. We spend our energies in condemning others. Criticism and condemnation is a vain way of spending our energies, for in the long run we come to learn that all are seeing the same thing, are more or less approaching the same ideal, and that most of our differences are merely differences of expression.
