i love this, we don't have to be like the pharisees.
I have always felt that your way of living your more conscious and intentional life is your reflection of God. I was raised with the understanding that prayer and your connection to God was in the act of living to your own highest sense of right and good.
THanks for this lovely piece.
Scott
Thanks so much Nippon,
You have my gratitude. This is very inspiring. You continue to have the best statements of any place on the web.
Warm and kind regards,
Conrad
You will also find these people rescuing the animals at risk around the planet.
As the Tao Te Ching says, "Content with a simple life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature." Years after he passed, I learned that my father, knowing I was on a full scholarship, had anonymously used all of the money he saved for my college education to send another young man to school. No one would have ever known. To me, that is Love in action.
This writing makes me feel that someone understands my relationship with my God - and it reminds us that the person in standing reverently in a grove of trees is in a church in the same way a person is who is in the grandest catherdral. I give thanks for this writing.
This is awesome - what a beautiful writing and reminder - thank you, for sharing!
Possibly the most inspirational writing I have had the honor to read in quite a while, and it represents exactly the uplifting nature of the deep connection we all have to the Consciousness within us. A dear friend has stated that in answer to the question "Why this then?" when asked what's the point of us being here now, "This is the infinite having a finite experience." And this beautifully written passage captures this essence in holistic terms. Thank you so much.
I live with a God who has no need for publicity of any kind.
I am opposed to organised religion, mostly on the basis of the controls the church applies to the parishioner. This is particularly so of the new age churches where all are encouraged to have a "close relationship" with Jesus. Some of the practices of these churches are no different to those which extort money from people for use in bolstering their own riches.
I personally feel closer to God, or the Universe, (or whatever deity others believe to be the Highest Power), when I am among nature, Like when I am gardening with my hands in the soil, when I hear birds communicating, dolphins frolicking or examine the most minute flower to find the most exquisite pattern and colours. It is then that I feel the power of the universe at its miraculous and magnificent best.