God

What it is

God is life itself. God is the living intelligence that expresses through spiritual laws and through the divine essence within every living being.

Why it matters

As we align our will with God’s will, we experience our connection with life itself. When we align with self-will, we experience separation—from our own divine nature, and therefore also from God.

From Bones

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Gaining a proper concept of God is one of the hardest awarenesses we can come by.

Why is this so? Because it’s by far the most precious. (Chapter 14)

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Each of us must do the painstaking work of uncovering how much this holds true for us. Are we in fact filled with such untrue concepts about God?

What often happens is that along the way, we become aware we harbor such wrong concepts. But we don’t know they are false. Believing them to be true, we turn away from God altogether, wanting nothing to do with that monster in our minds.

This is often the real reason someone turns to atheism.

But that turning away is in just as much error as our fear of a god that is cruel, self-righteous, stern and unjust. It’s simply the opposite extreme.

Some may hold onto their distorted God-image, rightly fearing the monster they have created. They will then resort to cajoling the dragon deity for favors.

In either case—following whichever opposite extreme we choose—we are not in truth. (Chapter 14)

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God is also the force that enlivens life.

This life force can be likened to electricity endowed with supreme intelligence. Through us and all around us flows this powerful “electric current”—it’s up to us how we want to use it.

We can use this electricity for healing and improving life. Or we can just as readily use it to quash life. That makes the current itself neither good nor bad.

We’re the ones who make it good or bad.

This perspective, though, can lead us to believe that God doesn’t care about us. And we are apt to be even more fearful of a totally impersonal God which, by the way, is not in truth. (Chapter 14)

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One major stumbling block for all of us, despite all the wonderful spiritual teachings we may have taken in from various places, is that we think about God as a person. God is someone who makes random choices, acting at will in an arbitrary sort of way.

Stacked onto this is the idea that all this must be just.

Consider for a moment that even this notion of a just God is false. God is. He (she, it, they) just is. God’s laws function automatically.

Our wrong concept about all this stands in our way of being filled with the truth about God. Which is that, among other things, God is life.

God is also the force that enlivens life. (Chapter 14)

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We can observe how sincerely we desire the things we ask for. Perhaps we want to know the truth but aren’t all that committed to overcoming our resistance to it. Then at least we should realize that we’re the ones obstructing the light and our own freedom, not God. (Chapter 14)

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The realization that cause and effect is on us, not an angry or indulgent God, is one of life’s main breaking points. (Chapter 14)

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