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The search for a path through life

The human attitude towards God puzzles me.

I’ve noticed, ever since I changed inside 23 years ago, that almost every human being I know has no true relationship to God whatsoever except in their mind— intellectually.

Some few of them have actually developed a relationship to God of one kind another through their body, but usually it’s a tenuous one; and even if the connection to God within the body is one of those few, rare strong ones, the mind is an insistent, stubborn, and ignorant creature, and interferes with it in the most remarkable ways.

Creation has always been thus, because there needs to be a struggle between the self and God. Otherwise the self never develops the strength it needs to be in a solid relationship with God. As we are we’re weak, like nestlings. We need to grow wings and feather them before we can fly.

In the meantime, everyone who does —or does not— have a relationship with God professes to understand matters regarding God in one way or another; there are the true believers, the theologians, the worshipful, the skeptics, and the atheists, blah blah blah. Almost every single one of them does not have anything even remotely resembling a regular relationship with the Presence of God, and yet they speak about it, affirming it, confirming it, or denying it as though the matter were up to them and they were the authority on it.

This is the sense in which I made the comment, on July 27, that when people are faced with the choice of having either God or themselves, they always choose themselves first.

They know better than God.