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“What Is God?”: Conclusion

The growing human being—child or adult—has need for ideas that nourish the search for Truth and the development of the Will to the Good, that nourish the sense of the sacred in nature and, above all, in ourselves. It may not be necessary for everyone to enter the path of inner work, leading to the opening to the true I Am within. But it may very well be necessary for the doors to be open to those who are touched by the great wish that leads to the personal search for God, whether that search takes place in the hidden heart of our own ancient teachings; or in the still living practical mysticism of Eastern teachings; or in the re-discovered path leading to the awakening of Conscious Attention; or in ways still, for all we know, hidden and waiting to be “switched on” in our civilization.

Both in our Earth and in our personal lives—we are perhaps at an unimaginably critical juncture in the life of man on Earth.

            We cannot wait for very long. The time remaining is very short, is it not?

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June 06 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Concluding paragraph of Introduction to “What Is God?”

More and more, as I see it now, this heartless way of thinking about God and ultimate reality dominates the mind of the contemporary world.  For God or against God, “belief” or “atheism,” it makes no difference unless the inner yearning—or whatever we wish to call the cause and source of the “second breathing”—is there. And it can so easily be there, just as it can so easily be covered over and ignored, perhaps for the rest of one’s life. God or not God, “belief” or “science”—it also makes no real difference for my personal life unless the call of the Self and its need to “breathe” is heard and, ultimately respected. Not only can thought about ultimate reality make no difference to the world or to my personal life unless we hear and respect the call of the Self, but such empty thought can bring down our personal and collective world, even our Earth itself. When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.


June 03 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments »