“Silence will illuminate you in God… and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God…. In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then from our very silence is born something that draws us into deeper silence. May God give you an experience of this ‘something’ thatContinue reading “Silence will illuminate you in God”
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The essential feature and necessity of life
“The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.” Malcolm Muggeridge
Knowing about God
“There’s a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we’ve been told and all of the books we’ve read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.”Continue reading “Knowing about God”
the absolute oneness of God
“I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.” —Mahatma Gandhi
The presence of God
“We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and “around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.” — Thomas Keating
Knowing God
I have reached a point in my life where I am really not interested in theology. I don’t want to know what scholars or preachers think about God, I want to know God. Faith for me has become less and less intellectual and more experiential. Life and faith are not meant to be endless struggleContinue reading “Knowing God”
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