I started this blog as a spiritual quest. I wanted to explore or figure out or invent or find a god that I could relate to. Over time, I've drifted far afield, as I suspect we questing souls tend to do. I read something yesterday that said: "Reflect on the fact that we may not understand God." Duh. You'd think I would have known that, right? I didn't. I have assumed all along that my intellect could apprehend or know god.
We may not understand God. This is stated as a FACT. It became obvious immediately: I don't understand God; I cannot understand God. It's way beyond my comprehension. You'd think that might be depressing; actually, it's a relief. I can quit trying to figure god out and just let go and assume that it's beyond me (intellectually). Going one step further, the ego rejects the very notion that there is something out there that it can't control or manage. So, inside of us, both the intellect and the ego are struggling to hang on to the idea that they are in charge. They're not. Huh!
At the same time, I do believe that (if there is a God, says my egolect) that we CAN know God although not in those ways of knowing. How then? In time-honored fashion, we must still the ego, quiet the intellect, and seek God in silence, in rhythm, in art, in nature, in our bodies when we are aware of them. God lives in everything (if there is a God, says my egolect). Why do we work SO HARD to not believe it?
Come to think of it, why bother deciding at all. Belief and unbelief are a continuum and we're on it somewhere whether we want to be or not. Let it go. Be silent. Turn off the TV, silence the smart phone and put it away, turn off the computer. Walk in rhythm with the heart beat and the movement of waves on the shore. Breathe in the same rhythms. God is beyond intellectual knowing. Fact. God is love and rhythmic motion in the universe. Join when you can. Roxie
We may not understand God. This is stated as a FACT. It became obvious immediately: I don't understand God; I cannot understand God. It's way beyond my comprehension. You'd think that might be depressing; actually, it's a relief. I can quit trying to figure god out and just let go and assume that it's beyond me (intellectually). Going one step further, the ego rejects the very notion that there is something out there that it can't control or manage. So, inside of us, both the intellect and the ego are struggling to hang on to the idea that they are in charge. They're not. Huh!
At the same time, I do believe that (if there is a God, says my egolect) that we CAN know God although not in those ways of knowing. How then? In time-honored fashion, we must still the ego, quiet the intellect, and seek God in silence, in rhythm, in art, in nature, in our bodies when we are aware of them. God lives in everything (if there is a God, says my egolect). Why do we work SO HARD to not believe it?
Come to think of it, why bother deciding at all. Belief and unbelief are a continuum and we're on it somewhere whether we want to be or not. Let it go. Be silent. Turn off the TV, silence the smart phone and put it away, turn off the computer. Walk in rhythm with the heart beat and the movement of waves on the shore. Breathe in the same rhythms. God is beyond intellectual knowing. Fact. God is love and rhythmic motion in the universe. Join when you can. Roxie
You said it, 'God is love and rhythmic motion in the universe'. We have invented words and imprisoned ourselves in the conformity of their assigned meanings. If only we are ready and able to experience god there is no need to go anywhere and need no intellectual or emotional scaffoldings. Sensing without senses, knowing without thinking and going without ego would take us to our own self and that is a god principle, the life. Right there at our fingertips; in & out of it, making the fingers - cells, molecules, atoms, particles, force fields until one would sense only a wave, rhythmic motion. Thus we are the rhythm. We cannot understand god because our ways of "understanding" are defective. Otherwise, gods are us.
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