Quote of the Day

The right religious worldview is the one that makes you a more empathetic human being – period. It is the belief system that enables you to be more aware of the suffering in the world and propels you into other people’s lives to alleviate that suffering.

If your religion doesn’t yield an ever deepening compassion in you and move you to widen your embrace of disparate humanity, it’s the wrong religion. I don’t care what your pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, guru, or prophet says. Believing the right thing isn’t the right thing unless your life shows the fruit. Less generosity, less empathy, less diversity means you got it wrong.

– John Pavlovitz
Excerpted from “How to Know If You Have the Wrong Religion”
JohnPavlovitz.com
August 25, 2021

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Aligning With the Living Light
• A Return to the Spirit
• Called to the Field of Compassion
• In the Garden of Spirituality – David Richo
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Karen Armstrong
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Doris Lessing
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Joan Chittister
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Marianne Williamson
• Michael Morwood on the Divine Presence

Image: Kristen Solberg.