"And if worship is not leading to the fire, if adoration is not leading to LOVE, if the liturgy is not leading to a clearer perception of reality, if God is not leading to life , of what use is Religion? Except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism?
It is not from lack of religion in the ordinary sense of the word that the world is suffering, it is from lack of love , lack of awareness. And love is generated through awareness and through no other way. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love , freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you can acquire, love is not something you produce, love is not something that you have , love is something that has you. You do not have the wind, the sun ,the stars ,the moon ,the rain….You do not posses these things, you surrender to them…."
Anthony De Mello
