I like, you, am drawn as an expert by experience in living this life. My path, your path, unique to discover the purpose and harmony of the soul while lending our own unique songs to the chorus of that which has given us life, breath, being.
Each of our paths, the tapestry thread of the universal experience, varied and wildly assorted to create that which is all life, breath, being.
If we are to delve deep into these breathes of life, the various purposes and come up with a single word that would encapsulate the harmony, the union, the yoga, the religion of the soul what word would that be?
Love.
"What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being." - Ganga White
Yet, this word, this fire, this passion, this word of love has measures if not respected properly in any given faith to consume ones self, others and give them to the all ashes.
So we establish religions, yogas, or unions, to guide us through the process of making that mystical word that is so far, yet so close, to reveal how we are to harvest it in our individual and collective lives.
Religions become the structure to guide us.
Each one approaching this concept, this love in unique ways in an attempt to unify that flame, the love, which is infinite and can only act to warm a portion of the entire warmth within.
At the core of all of these faiths, these unions of the body to the spirit, a question resonates within deep the soul:
What purpose does your faith serve you?
What is your religion of love?
Does it transcend within or beyond the constructs of established unions?
My own journey has been that of finding the beauty wherever it may be and moving beyond the labels constructed of interpretation of that beauty.
For is not a rose, still a rose, sweet and tender as a flame to the smell, pleasant to the sight, no matter if it is given a label or not?
So if I am to label my faith, I would say I have the union, the religion, the yoga of love; and in that love I find myself made to be able to adopt multiple unions of love adopting that which serves my greatest highest self to discover that true self within, expanding outward, a harmony that sings to the depths of my soul:
The Religion of Love.
Zed Sonder loves discovering love, no matter what belief structure it is found in.