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But doesn’t that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed . . .
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. I think you are free to search for any metaphor whatsoever which will take you across the worldly divide whenever you need to be transported or comforted. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing—right in the hub of the wheel—not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness—that’s your heart. That’s where God lives within you.
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
God dwells within you, as you.
God is an experience of supreme love.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
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. . . Somewhere from within me rises a now-familiar presence, offering me all the certainties I have always wished another person would say to me when I was troubled. This is what I find myself writing on the page: I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long.
There’s a reason we refer to ‘leaps of faith’—because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don’t care how diligently scholars of every religion will try to sit you down with their stacks of books and prove to you...
Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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