God

 I think God is the way. I think God is love and God is life. I think without God, we are lost. God is so much that I cannot say what God is. I just feel good when I am with God in my heart. I think God is always here and we can find God if we are listening. I don't think God wants anything from us other than that we be our best selves by fully being present in this moment. I think God is how we solve our problems. I think God is how we heal. I think we try so hard to succeed by ourselves and we forget that God is here to help us. To go with us. I think God lives in our hearts and when we live with God we can see that everything is apart of God. We feel that the world is so cold and alien when we cannot see God, when we feel that we are alone. It looks ugly and barren and hostile. I don't think this is how things are. I think this is how we are afraid things are. I do not think the world is the enemy. I do not think there really is an enemy. I don't know exactly what this world is or who we are, but I think that things are brighter than they often appear. I think the cold can cover over the world, but light and love always live within. I think their is infinite brightness within everything, infinite goodness. I think this is who we really are. Of course we have all our negative qualities, as does this world. But I don't think they are as strong as they appear. And I don't think they stand apart from what we love and cherish. I think all of that is rooted in light and love. I think love is the true nature of everything. Of this world, of all of us. I do not believe in the image that fear conjures. I believe in what God tells me about this place. I believe in who God is. I believe we can live in love if we let God into our lives. If we have the courage and the strength to love God with all of our heart. We have this strength inside of us. We all do. We spend our lives here trying to solve this riddle. Of how do I live? What is the best way to live? What can I trust? We sift through shadows in our mind and struggle to hold onto shifting mists that are our perceptions of the world. We seek for gain, for everlasting power. To anchor ourselves to this rock and to an immortal mortal existence. We spend much of our lives swirling in this struggle. We cannot have this. We cannot live here forever. These bodies are not meant to last forever. Nor are they the fullness of who we are. We do not depend on anything that we see to perpetuate our existence. Who we believe we are is an ever-changing mist flowing through time. We are not this mist, we are what lies behind it that does not depend on anything. We cannot cling to anything that composes who we believe we are. The river is meant to flow, not to stand still. Water will always pass through our fingers in the stream, even until our hand and our fingers are the water passing away. Nothing here will support us. It cannot. As human beings we depend on eachother. We depend on everything in our universe. As that which lies beyond all that is, nothing can support us and nothing ever will. This is our heart, when we anchor it to the world we are bound to fail. When we realize that everything here is insubstantial and we let go of attempting to survive forever, we can be free to become who we really are. Who we are is who we have always been. We cannot change this in any detail. The one thing that is established is the only thing we cannot cling to. We cannot find it through clinging. We cannot find it through striving. We cannot keep it for ourselves. This immortal life transcends everything we are attached to. Everything we find worth clinging to. It transcends our lives as individual beings. It is beyond individual being, beyond individual consciousness. It is beyond human beings. It is beyond clinging, or any form, beyond ideas of form and formlessness. Beyond comprehension. This is who we are. Nothing we can do can enhance this, or make us more centered in it. Clinging strives to accomplish greater achievement. This thing is established. It cannot be enhanced. We are not enhanced in it. Or by it. It cannot be moved or swayed or modified in any way. Realizing it, we see that we are it and not ourselves. That we are not something to be gained, but something that already exists, that is already formed. We need take no attitude in life for life is a flowing river. We need accomplish nothing here because here is not where we find fulfillment. We do not find fulfillment because as we are we cannot be fulfilled. Fulfillment is the transcendent single state of being that is the sole reality. Humans cannot attain this, everything is fundamentally this. We confuse things for things, when they are the absolute. Nothing stands apart from this. Everything is this. Fulfillment is simply the single reality. How can we obtain something by searching for it in the world when we already have it in our pocket? We are searching for something that isn't there. Not only do we already have it, but our means of searching are inherently flawed. We sift through a world of limited forms for something unlimited and believe we can find it there. We are confusing one paradigm with another. This is why we fail in our search. God is already here, ever-present. God is more real than anything else. We try and try again to find God among a sea of limited forms. God requires faith because he can be realized when we let go of this immersion in limited consciousness. We must pull ourselves from it so we can see what is truly unlimited. We imagine faith brings us out of the water, but when we are free from it, we see that we have never been wet. We were never a fish in the sea. What is established, is established. We are established in it because we are not who we believe we are, we are transcendent fulfillment now that is all that is. As humans we experience this relative change in the order of things. From the other side, it appears that there is no other side. Simply the infinite nature of God. This limited world appears to be a misunderstanding and a play of God's infinite being. If this is so, then it is obvious that God is all we can trust because God is the only thing that is real. Everything else is insubstantial. God defies all our limited reason and demands absolute faith in that which we cannot hold to in this world. It require trusting in what we cannot see, but what we can feel. It goes against all lesser currents that among us appear as titans. God is not swayed because nothing here, no power he can touch God. No power here has any power over God because God is of another order. The highest order that is the single order that is real. The all powerful appears as effortlessness here on Earth. The least power is the greatest power because the least power can move everything else without exerting any power at all. God doesn't necessarily require us to individually possess great force, God requires us to give up our force so we can carry his, which is lightest among all things. If we have nothing to gain because we have inherited the universe, what motive do we have for harassing others? We need nothing else with God because God is the single thing that is real. God is complete, simply complete. Everything we do, we do to become complete. It takes on all the forms of all the behaviors and actions we may do. All of this is to be complete, masked in a million different ways understood as a million different things. All of these ways are attempts to realize God. By letting go of this world, truly letting go, from deep within. We open ourselves to gain fulfillment in God. Through the realization that God is the single ever-present reality that we have confused with every form in this world for so long. God is simply abiding now. All of this is God. For God is the only thing that is.