I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up more karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
All religions exhort us to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.