God

If I believe that God lives in me as me, then what do I do about that? How do I begin to make that real? Is this what “realizing God” really means? Typically we look for God in a church, in a guru, in a marriage or a child, on a mountaintop, in a sacred [...]

Hasn’t it become the way of the spiritual seeker to travel from church to church, teacher to teacher, picking up pieces of truth and wisdom here and there, in search of that elusive magnificence we can’t really know or understand until we find it? We are looking for Truth, we are looking for Wisdom, we [...]

Genuine happiness and the joy it engenders really only arise from our connection to the transcendent. Any other kind of happiness is a sloppy second, a half-happiness, a false joy. The happiness and joy we are hard-wired to deeply long for, is found in the transcendent dimension of life.

Want more time? Slow down and do less. What is created is spaciousness itself. And space, especially inner space, is vast and endless.

Jesus taught: “I am in God and God is in me.” And because he’s speaking not only of himself, but of all of us, he’s really saying: “You are in God and God is in you.”

Bob Marley takes this idea and makes a declaration: “I and I plant the corn.” God is in me and we act together as one. Such a beautiful simple statement of what Christianity calls “doing God’s will.”

God wants to be known, and God waits for our interest.

God is like the shy girl who insists on being pursued. God does not initiate the courtship. This act is yours alone. But once you make the approach, once you sincerely reach for God, you will not be ignored nor rejected. God does wait for you with longing, loving arms.