1 :: Spiritual traditions teach that an encounter with the divine is available only when the intellect grinds to a halt and a pure unself-conscious witnessing of experience takes place. And yet the scientists, analytic philosophers and materialists of the world continue to think themselves out of such a relationship, insistent that if God existed, He must be accessible via conceptual thought. The irony. ::
2 :: The metaphysics of reality can be clamped by language of all kinds. In the most sober, unmystical terms, we might say that we are a local mind experiencing itself as distinct and divorced from a deeper, bigger, or greater Mind. Some call this the small self and the Big Self. Others call it man and God. Others still call it the self and the One. It matters not what it is called. The point is to experience it. ::
3 :: We are prone in the modern day to thinking of belief in God as wishful thinking. Implicit in this is the assumption that ultimate truth cannot be consoling: that such a discovery would inevitably imply bias. The bias works both ways. Automatic disbelief is as erroneous as automatic belief. ::
4 :: There have been many attempts to prove the existence of God. But it is much saner simply to look with sincerity: “Knock and the door shall open”. ::
5 :: “The diversity of opinion on the matter of God demonstrates that there is no truth to the matter,” say the skeptics. Or perhaps we all see the same thing through different eyes. Love feels the same in every human chest, and yet what you call inner peace I call the presence of God. ::
6 :: That God’s nature is love would seem absurd if we did not all automatically orient our lives around that very feeling, except those who have so completely lost the scent for it that they resemble its antithesis: evil. ::
7 :: The soul longs quietly for an encounter with God. The mind works tirelessly to prevent it. The battle between the two is fought on the battleground of the body. ::
8 :: There is no use filling our house with fancier and fancier things if it is at risk of collapsing any moment. We cannot build a sturdier house without stronger foundations. We must all learn to accept that reality is One Consciousness. No other foundation will do. ::
9 :: Science’s concept of physical matter is a theory in the minds of human beings. A theory is an excitation of consciousness. How could a ripple in a lake create the water out of which it is made?* (paraphrasing analytic idealist philosopher Bernardo Kastrup) ::
10 :: Nothing creates consciousness, for consciousness is that which creates. ::
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