• Religion is an institution established by man for various reasons. Exert control, instill morality, stroke egos, or whatever it does. Organized, structured religions all but remove god from the equation. You confess your sins to a clergy member, go to elaborate churches to worship, told what to pray and when to pray it. All those factors remove you from god.
  
  
• Spirituality is born in a person and develops in the person. It may be kick started by a religion, or it may be kick started by a revelation. Spirituality extends to all facets of a person’s life.Spirituality is chosen while religion is often times forced. Being spiritual to me is more important and better than being religious.
   
• True spirituality is something that is found deep within oneself. It is your way of loving, accepting and relating to the world and people around you. It cannot be found in a church or by believing in a certain way.
  
  

  • There is not one religion, but hundreds
  • There is only one type of spirituality
    
    
  • Religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality
  • Spirituality is for those who want to reach the Spiritual Ascent without dogmas
     
  • Religion is for those who are asleep
  • Spirituality is for those who are awake
    
    
  • Religion is for those that require guidance from others
  • Spirituality is for those that lend ears to their inner voice
    
    
  • Religion has a dogmatic and unquestionable assembly of rules that need to be followed without question
  • Spirituality invites you to reason it all, to question it all and to decide your actions and assume the consequences
    
    
  • Religion threatens and terrifies
  • Spirituality gives you inner peace
    
    
  • Religion speaks of sin and of fault
  • Spirituality encourages "living in the present" and not to feel remorse for which has already passed - Lift your spirit and learn from errors
    
    
  • Religion represses humanity, and returns us to a false paradigm
  • Spirituality transcends it all and makes you true to yourself
    
    
  • Religion is instilled from childhood, like the soup you do not you want to take
  • Spirituality is the food that you you seek, that satisfies you and is pleasant to the senses
    
    
  • Religion is not God
  • Spirituality is infinite consciousness and all that is - It is God
     
  • Religion invents
  • Spirituality discovers
    
    
  • Religion does not investigate and does not question
  • Spirituality questions everything
     
  • Religion is based on humanity, an organization with rules
  • Spirituality is DIVINE, WITHOUT rules
     
  • Religion is cause for division
  • Spirituality is cause for union
     
  • Religion seeks you so that you create
  • Spirituality causes you to seek
     
  • Religion continues the teachings of a sacred book
  • Spirituality seeks the sacredness in all the books
     
  • Religion is fed fear
  • Spirituality is fed confidence
     
  • Religion lives you in your thoughts
  • Spirituality lives in your conscience
     
  • Religion is in charge of the "to do"
  • Spirituality is in charge of the "to BE"
    
    
  • Religion is a dialectic
  • Spirituality is logic
     
  • Religion feeds the ego
  • Spirituality makes you transcend
     
  • Religion makes you renounce yourself to the world
  • Spirituality makes you live with God, not to renounce him
     
  • Religion is adoration
  • Spirituality is meditation
     
  • Religion is to continue adapting to the psychology of a template
  • Spirituality is individuality. 
     
  • Religion dreams of glory and paradise
  • Spirituality makes you live it here and now
    
    
  • Religion lives in the past and in the future
  • Spirituality lives in the present, in the here and now
    
    
  • Religion lives in the confinement of your memory
  • Spirituality is LIBERTY in AWARENESS.
     
  • Religion believes in the eternal life
  • Spirituality makes you conscious of all that is
     
  • Religion gives you promises for the after-life
  • Spirituality gives you the light to find God in your inner self, in this life, in the present, in the here and the now…

  May peace, happiness and universal love continue growing in your heart.
  
  

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  

IF IT IS ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THIS, IT IS NOT LOVE

KNOW YOUR WORTH

"Bitter Sweet"

"Bitter Sweet"

"Righteous"

"This Is A Serious Matter"

"Herstory" is different than my story, but our stories combined create BEAUTY, COMPASSION, and PERSEVERANCE. Thank you to our past so we could create this future. -Curby Rogers

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

"Nothing happens on accident" 

I'll never know why you were placed in my life, but until my casket drop I'll forever be grateful for your presence.

Righteous- ( of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable virtuous. 

(A righteous woman indeed) 

My ear to vent to without judgement and my shoulder to lean on at all times. 

Forthright, Divergent, Heartfelt, Loyal, Genuine, Affectionate, my Best Friend. 

 What is a true friend? A true friend says what they think their friend needs to hear even when they know that their friend may get angry. A true friend doesn't leave because they are afraid to be with you. A true friend doesn't leave when the fun stops and things get uncomfortable There are just of few of the values that real friends hold dear. In short, A true friend recognizes the value of the friendship and holds it sacred.

 

 

The night that I realized it was real.

"I was so HURT and like always you were there"

"The Beginning"

 

"Until Forever"

"There Go Gods Work Again"

"Fate"

"Lost in my thoughts" 
 There Go GODS work again. How did he know I need that?

You came to me when I was at the lowest point in my life, and my logic say to me, that you came to me as a stranger, and I hold you dearer than most people I ever met in my entire life....GODS work not mine. -Joe Budden

"Im just amazed that a women so beautiful can go through such 

ugliness and not become it"

The same person that brought me the most pain and is the reason that most of my past relationships cease to exist, brought me the one person that I adore and that GOD felt like I needed the most, and for that reason alone I can't hate her, because I honestly feel like outside of all the stress that she caused she really did me a favor. Good people are hard find, but because of her I have another person who is genuine and loves me past my flaws, loves me despite my mistakes,  loves me past it all. Someone who is brutally honest and is willing to listen without placing judgment first, someone who never filters, and is quick to check me-no matter how bad it hurts. Someone who knows that I am imperfect but sees my potential, and perfection. Lost a lot of friends to gain one of the best I ever had and it was definitely worth the wait. She's known to many as Kaquana Or Bambi but me I call her Fate. ..She's my BEST FRIEND!!!

"GODS WORK NOT MINE"

"Woman...Wife...Friend"

"Situationships" 

Work Towards Healing.

Work Towards Healing.

   Hurt people hurt people, however healed people heal people.  If you work on your issues and work towards healing (whether it's by simply accepting it and moving on, or seeing a therapist, etc.) you will then be able to go out into the world and spread that good energy that comes from you being healed.

Hurt People Hurt People

Hurt People Hurt People

Hurt people hurt people.  It really is as simple as that.  People who are hurting lash out at other people who are hurting, and if you're the one being lashed out at-there isn't a whole lot you can do about it.  You can choose to take in that anger and lash out at other people in return, lash out back at the person lashing out at you; or you can choose to rise above and react to that person with compassion and understanding.

"Those who hurt us are usually hurting themselves, and their  pain may be so strong that they are not even aware they are hurting us."- Joyce Myers

Don't hold grudges.

Holding on to grudges really only hurts you.  The other person isn't necessarily hurt by it-they go on living their life while you are the one stuck dwelling on the things you feel they did.  You are the one that continues to hurt inside, hurt yourself further, and hurt those around you by lashing out.  In turn, forgive those who have lashed out at you-it's not worth ruining a friendship over just because a little anger burst through.

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burnt." - Buddha

Fuck I Look Like?

Frustrations of being placed in a box by both her white and black classmates

Understanding

Date: November 24, 2010

Location: I-95 South

Time: 11:45pm

Understanding

I've come to the conclusion that what they told me was true. The hardest part about living is dying and there isn't much you can do. I try to understand, but I can't, I guess I am still in a stage of denial. Trying to cope but it's hard to control my mind. This situation has my complete focus. I wonder do the people around me notice. Notice that I'm in a zone or better yet a circle analyzing everything to the full extent although it seems I'm not paying attention, among some other shit that in this post I won't mention. See I listen and compare worlds and wonder why the fuck am I the one going through the most shit, the most suffering, the most pain. Nonchalant on the outside but on the inside my mind is going insane. Tried smoking, tried drinking but that high is only temporary and when it’s gone, it’s back to reality. Same life, constant pain, and the same old people that I am never contented to see. Every other month my grandmother on her death bed, and my family preparing for the worst. The type of shit that make me second guess my whole life....like damn I kind of wish I went to school to be a nurse. Student loans out the ass and I don't even have my degree thinking how the fuck am I gone pay Sallie Mae back 30 gz, and believe me it gets worse…I'm confident I'm running out of time, not to mention that half of my family members are losing their mind. They say never second guess GOD and I'm not. I just wish I knew the reasoning behind his actions. I just need some understanding.