Religion

"Religion alive confronts the individual with the most momentous option life can present. It calls the soul to the highest adventure it can undertake, a proposed journey across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the human spirit. The call is to confront Reality, to master the self. Those who dare to hear and follow that call soon learn the dangers and difficulties of its lonely journey."-Huston Smith

This quote doesn’t just speak to just one religion but rather all religions. Each religion asks you to go on a journey of the soul and find ones true self. After doing so you then reach a higher power, you become aware, you learn about life and how to live. Once you die you die alone and if you have reached awareness you move on alone to heaven, you become one with your god, or you get sent back into the world. This quote expresses all of these ideas journey, understanding and loneliness.