God has no religion

 It might be the need of looking for answers, which makes one start believing in something, call it „God“. But does that necessarily mean becoming religious? And what’s the difference between being spiritual and being religious? Is the second and expansion of the first? or just two different words pointing to the same?

I do know I believe in something and I think I am starting to slowly understand the meaning of God and the Divine, or at least the meaning to me:

God is a cosmic energy which resides in oneself, maybe an energy still not explored nor expanded, but inherited in every human being. 

God is the energy which allows you become part of everything and at the same time dissolves your earthy being.

God is yourself transformed in love and the world transformed in love 

God is you spreading love and warmth, and you receiving love from every cell in the atmosphere

God is this loving energy which makes everything possible, 

which makes you sit here with trust and serenity

which makes you free

cause you trust

which makes you brave 

since when feeling God, you are never alone.

Nothing bad can happen

Your life is a miracle,

like the world

like this cosmic energy

we are all made from.

Yet I feel a lot of respect for the word „religion“. For all the buddhists, hindus, taoists, or christians which claim for an ascetic life without attachments: isn’t „being religious“, from the point of view of its own definition, becoming automatically an attachment to you? A word put in your character, just like that, „I am religious“, it sounds so strong and so oppressing for me at the same time. I am just not able to accept I should say I am religious, if I believe in God. Or maybe it’s just a false perception and I shouldn’t take the word too seriously. It’s just a name. Saying „I am spiritual“ doesn’t sound so strong to me, for instance. I am sure is due to society.

Anyways, I guess I should do some research in the subject…

"Religion is a specific set of organised beliefs and practices, usually shared by a community or group.

 Spirituality is more of an individual practice and has to do with having a sense of peace and purpose.It also relates to the process of developing beliefs around the meaning of life and connection with others. 

One way that might help you to understand the relationship between spirituality and religion is imagine a game of football. The rules, referees, other players, and field markings help guide you as you play the game in a similar way that religion might guide you to find your spirituality.

 Kicking the ball around a park, without having to play on the field or with all the rules and regulations, can also give you fulfilment and fun and still expresses the essence of the game, similar to spirituality in life.

 People may identify as being any combination of religious and spiritual, but to be religious does not automatically make you spiritual or vice–versa".