Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
Interpretation
The way we handle differing religious beliefs reflects our own spiritual confidence.
This quote suggests that the extent to which we can accept and tolerate religious expressions that differ from our own is an indicator of how secure and confident we feel in our own beliefs. When someone is spiritually secure, they are less likely to feel threatened by opposing views and can appreciate the diversity of thought in religious expression.
In practice
During a panel discussion on interfaith relationships, this quote could be used to highlight the importance of acceptance.
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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