It's heavy, but I still want to share

I have been reading this book called The Secret for quite some time now. (It's really a quick read, but I like to ponder and meditate on several of the issues brought up in the book.) I have also watched the movie and LOVE it! Basically, it is an awesome positive thinking book that helps me understand how things work and fills in a lot of gaps I have in the whole huge realm of religion. It teaches that thinking positive, being grateful and appreciative for what you have and who you are RIGHT NOW will open more doors of good things for you in your future. This is an awesome concept for me and, it has been working. I feel better about myself and good things DO happen to me. Everyday. Bad things happen too, but, well, read the book and you'll understand.




Now, I am not saying this is the end all be all for you religious zealots out there. What I AM saying is that I have questions. Lots and lots of questions. I am a firm believer in evolution. The scientist in me just can not deny that things have changed and evolved over the centuries and eons of time. I am also a firm believer in the Big Bang Theory. However, I also believe in God, Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Mother Nature. And now, The Universe. How much they all have to do with everything is where my questions come into play. Do they work together? Is there one big boss and the others are just the worker bees?




Now, if you are gung ho in your beliefs, more power to you. However, I will ask you this . . . how can you be sure YOU are right? What makes YOU more right over anyone else? There are hundreds of THOUSANDS of religions in existence (more, if you take into account the Native American religions). How are you SO sure that YOU are right and they aren't? And, what if you are wrong? Then what? These are just a few of the many, many questions I have. Now, if you have answered these questions for yourself and are happy where you are in your journey, more power to you. I, however, am not satisfied with the answers I have seen and heard out there. And so, I research. It's one of the things in this world I am awesome at.




This book, The Secret, has explained much to me. It has also pushed me into further research and helped me to develop my own beliefs and religion of sorts I like to call is Kama-ism. It is my own unique religion. Many people have a difficult time with the fact that I am not showing up bright and early on a Sunday morning in a building where one person tells me all about what he or she believes and demeans me into thinking if I don't believe the same, I am somewhat less of a person. If I do go, they are ok with that. No matter which one I choose, as long as I go. It's like a brainwashing sort of mentality that is all the more accepted because SO MANY of you believe the same thing. But, if I don't go, I am damned to hell. For you Christians out there, how is this ok with you? The Bible teaches that God is a gracious and forgiving God. After all, he sacrificed his SON for the sins of the world, so that they may all be forgiven. And yet, if I don't show up at 8 AM every week, I am going to hell? Thinking such as this is what initially made my brain start working.




And please, please don't comment on how much better your religion yours is than others or try to convert me. I am happy (truly, I am!) that you are content with where you are. I, however, am still on my own journey. Leave me alone and let me travel. Better people have tried to sway me. And yet, the unanswered questions are still there, so it doesn't work for me.




So, now that you know a bit of my background when it comes to the whole religion thing, back to The Secret. It is an awesome book. The movie is even better. I love the sense of peace it brings me, the hope that resides in my heart when I finish a chapter. And, I wanted to share a small piece of the hope and peace I feel.




Here's a dose of daily inspiration:

Whatever you choose for You is right! You cannot get it wrong. If You have chosen something for You, it is right! It is impossible for you to fail, because how can you fail at being You? You are the perfection of You because nobody else can be You! You have got You down pat! Do you appreciate that you are an outstanding and total success at being You, right where you are now?

Now, go forth and be happy with who you are and where you are right now. Because it could be worse. Much, much worse.