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07 September 2013

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Didymus Feb 2014–Jan 2025

To us, it seems possible that we may already live in paradise. If so, it will be within us and all around us. But the problem is that we don't look for it so we don't see it; and so we abuse it. We aim to prepare ourselves to awaken to its reality and to begin to live connected to this felt sense of beauty and love.

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Gabor Kereki said this on religion the Unitarian way:

Religion ought to provide us with strength, inspiration, spiritual power, and invigorating joy - it ought to reach to the depths of the human spirit where the deepest and most meaningful experiences of life take place.

No Unitarian is called upon to subscribe to any particular belief or to submit to the dominance of a particular doctrine. We need the satisfying and exhilarating experience of worship, we need inspiration for reverence; we need stimulus for duty; we need incentive for love, goodness and beauty; we need a happy spiritual conception of the universe.

One of our main desires is to share our religion with others. In any realm, be it science, art or religion, nobody commends anything to anybody unless first enjoying it, being strengthened and enriched by it.


From ‘Egy Az Isten’ –
Unitarianism – some words of Gabor Kereki

© 1996 General Assembly of
Unitarian and Free Christian Churches



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