In my point of view, western culture has a very strong musculine energy, and Eastern culture has a very strong feminine energy.

What makes the difference?
I think that if musculine energy becomes strong, people would start believing in heaven and God.
And if feminine energy becomes strong, people will start believing in reincarnation.
This is how I feel about musculine and feminine energy.

I think John Lennon had a very strong musculine energy and Ono Yoko had a very strong feminine energy.
When those energy became one, song like “Imagine” was created.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXqSJ9DQ8
REM – Losing my religion

“L’auteur de ma vie
Je suis l’auteur de ma vie,
Les succes et les echecs,
Les joies et les querelles

J’auditionne tous les jours
Les personnages et je decide
Qui partira et qui restera

Oui, je suis l’auteur de ma vie.

Je choisis egalement le cadre :
Montagne, ville ou mer.
Est ce que ce sera une comedie,
Epopee ou tragedie?

Cette decison repose sur moi.

Je decide qui aura le role principalo.
Bien entendu, le role principal
C’est moi qui le tiendrait.

Pendant des heures et des heures
Je repete pour que ce personnage
Devienne une benediction ou une malediction.

Accordez-vous un peu de temps pour reflechir
Et devenez l’auteur de votre vie.

Nicholas Lentinel

“The author of my life

I am the author of my life,
The success and failures,
The joys and strife.

I audition characters every day
And decide which will go
And which will stay.

Yes, I am the author of the play.

The setting is also mine to choose.
The setting of mountain, city or sea,
That decision rests upon me
Comedy, epic or tragedy.

I decide what the leading person should be,
The leading person, of course, is me.

Hours and hours I rehearse
To make that character
A blessing or a curse.

So give this idea some thought to-day
And you be the author of your play.”

Nicholas Lentel

“There is no risks in love as you’ll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years.” Paulo Coelho

I know this comment is a rather late, i doubt most of you will even read it, but i’d like to put my little comment in anyway.. I think we must also remember other religions greatly acknowledge the famine side of God, or rather the Goddess, for example, my religion, Hinduism. I’ve grrown up praying and learning of many of our Goddesses and i suppose thats why when i started learning about other religions such as Christainity, and did discover the female side of it, i didn’t see it to drastically out of the ordinary. But my opinion remains, that there are many manifestations of God and many paths. It is up to you, to focus on what you are most comfortable with, and what you love the most. Further more, i have to agree with many of the comments, stating that the newer generations are more open to finding new interpretations of religions and more and more people are starting to think for themselves slowly and searching for what they believe in.

Thank you for being
Yajna

Because God is everything,
good and bad, feminine and masculine, love, light, energy, spirit, life and death….everything!

love
Agnieszka

Just a thought…

for example,
if…by doing something…your child is becoming like…you, does it mean that he/she IS you?
or…
does it mean that you both are alike?
:-)

love
Agnieszka

(We could even still be nothing more than a mental image, a thought, an imagining…just as our own thoughts and imaginings have a ‘life of their own’ like characters in a book??who really knows?)

…just like we create an image of the world around us, water is water and wine is wine?
no.
Jesus said; ye shall do what I have done and more.
We are called Children of God….when my child is of age, it will have equal status
I’m not trying to argue with anyone,
but back to the original quote I gave,
maybe there’s not as much difference/distance between us and god as we’re led/choose to believe.
just a thought
sent with love as usual
xxxx

I BELIEVE GOD IS…IN US, but WE….ARE NOT GOD.

We may be a little, tiny spark, a little particle of the Divine, we may even become like God, with the good, with the love living inside us, but…to think that we…are God is for me, not only very proud and superior, but blasphemous.
If someone is humble inside, he/she can never say things like that.
Also, if you think of this whole world, including us, created by God , based on what you wrote, it would look like all of these were created by US!???
That is really proud statement one can make.
Sorry, but it even hurts.
Yes, heaven can be inside us, if we let it to be, if we’re good enough, love enough, but still,
we will never be God, we can only be…similar….to God, a little part of God.

love
Agnieszka

I do not actually believe in a ‘God’ but that we are God and God is us. Just as the ocean consists of individual drops of water and the dessert individual grains of sand so we too are all individual sparks of the divine as is everything from plants to jelly fish and together we make up the whole. This is why we do not have paradise on earth but it can be. Each individual soul is constructing and reconstructing the destiny of this earth and every soul affects every other soul with whom it comes into contact. I believe that gradually souls are beginning to awaken to this reality which is shown by the breakdown of organised religions and a rise in an individual relationship to our spiritual existence. This being the dawn of the age of Aquarius, the bringer of spirit to the world, these movements and insights will increase. I myself am an Aquarian and I have faith that this momentum for a personal experience of the divine will increase. Only then will we begin to experience heaven on earth. Heaven is not somewhere else – it lives in each and every soul and when we finally take personal responsibility for our part in the divine destiny and treat each and every person as a truly divine being only then will we live in harmony with all that is.

Bright Blessings

Veronica
;-)xx

for all of you with love
Agnieszka

Thank you for your kind words, and you’re so welcome.
I always hope that it can bring someone a little bit of hope, peace and love.

lots of love to everybody,
Agnieszka

This is one of the most beautiful poems I have ever read, really! Thank you, dear Agnieszka, for this beautiful gift; it seems to me that it is the essence of spring, of revival, of life… :-) After all, Love is neither masculine, nor feminine; Love represents God’s heart indeed and it simply exists, enjoys, enlightens… :-)
May God bless the whole world with Peace, Understanding and Communication!

Lots of Love,
Carmen Larisa

Many religious institutions lag behind. They are hamstrung by their own systems of belief. I can see their dilema. If you have invested ceturies of dogma in God being male and men being superior, and your codees of belief and practice are based on this, how do you suddenly turn round and say, ‘sorry guys, we got it slightly wrong.’ without losing all credibility?

People are evolving in their beliefs and the major challenge for these religions now is to keep pace or to fade away as their hold and popularity wanes, or becomes locked in fundamentalism.

Rebecca

A ‘perfect’ ‘God’ (everyone who has a ‘God’, under whatever guise, agrees that ‘God’ is ‘perfect’) would have to incorporate both masculine and feminine principles without being captivated by either. The perfect union of the two is a revelation of love and source of creation, it’s the soul.

Most people are ‘sleepwalking’ on this planet, and few are genuinely following a spiritual path because it takes faith, bravery, and courage to step out of the comfort zone…
Unfortunately, the handful of males who are ruling this planet are only interested in the power of greed, control & corruption that exists in our religions, governments, and corporations.

Peace & Love,
Ola

What is God’s gender? I think this question is a very naïve one.
Shortly I had a discussion with my disciples – they are ca. 9 years old – how they imagine God. They said the imagination of an old man sitting on a cloud don’t work for them anymore. Afterwards one of the children drew a picture of her imagination of God. It was a mythical being, a mixture of animal, plant and human being. She commended God includes parts of that all.
It seems that 9 year old kids have more progressive imaginations than the great religions.

I think church will not change its point of view – they cling to the image of God as a male in fear to lose their traditional power. There will be no female pope too soon. In natural religions it is different; you often find a female God – they see women as “donators of life” and not as “cause for sin” in the world.

I think all humanlike images of God arise from our helplessness to describe the indescribable and comprehend the incomprehensible.
Shortly I read a prayer someone began with the words “immaculate conception”. It sounds very abstract, but I like it, because God is not compared with man.

love to you all
Agnieszka

Anyhow, I think that religion is feminine in the world today and that the only masculine thing is Politics as war is now attached to this and peace is essentially attached to religion. Like the left and right side of the brain!