If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you’ll never realize God.
You’re looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God’s face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward – all the faces of God surround you at all times.
Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.
We use the word “God” as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.
God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
You’re not a person. We take that form. We’re an essence. We’re an awareness of God’s. We’re made up of countless, countless realities.
You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn’t emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It’s totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death – it doesn’t matter.
Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.
In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You’re thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn’t speak through words or thoughts. God doesn’t speak. God is silent.
How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn’t have friends.
The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time – never judges, just is.
It’s amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
To just burn out, to give up just because things don’t go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light – I think that’s pretty petty, personally.
Some people say: “There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering.” Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That’s what makes God, God, by definition.
From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They’re usually forgotten or scorned.
If you can’t make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you’ll get invited to the party.
The eye of God is inside us. It’s looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don’t you?
Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.