I typically refer to God as it. I know that this strikes some as irreverent but I think that to limit God with Gender, or any other finite quality known to us, is actually irreverent. Some believe that God is both genders, I suspect rather that it is neither ( or any type of ) gender.
~ Wayne Muller
YOU are the very guru YOU are searching for. Taking another as your guru is looking outside of yourSelf. It is by going within in Silence you’ll find the very thing you’ve been seeking has been seeking You, and You are IT.
~Jeremy Wheeler
Today I Robin have been getting a much deeper appreciation for the emphasis on self. I think I may have harbored a bit of a prejudice against focusing on the self because it just seemed so selfish! That is the wrong wrong wrong view of it. The self is the self of everyone. It is the most loving thing that anyone could possibly do to get it straight that your self is the same self that everyone is grappling with and it is the Self of God. It is God. Some approaches to trying to clarify what God is and what God isn’t add so much confusion to the issue. There’s no need to try to define God. If you want to hear some of the most bizarre notions of what people think God means, hear some of the definitions from other cultures as they try to rather flippantly and dismissively describe what is being referred to. Let’s quit with the attempts to define God and just simply say that God is all that really is. Is there anyone anywhere who would sincerely disagree with that?
SELF is a synonym for God that encapsulates that which extends through to all cultures and offers hope that we can embrace each other’s contributions.
DrRobinStarbuck
In the interest of laying a groundwork for smoother conversations, I’ve been searching for a way to present an albeit slight COMMONALITY that the East and West have re. the definition of “God”: this COMMONALITY is “Self”.
SG => Self=God
SB => Self=Beyond
SG: God is All that there is. Beyond God there is nothing. Not a single thing whatsoever can be found beyond God.
SB: Absolutely right sg: there is nothing beyond. It is exactly this NOTHING that we esteem and worship as the only real Self that there is.
Robin: Two things are most undesirable at this juncture:
(1) Pitting SB and SG against each other.
(2) Merging SB and SG in any way.
DrRobinStarbuck
I do not want to “get” anything, especially the mistaken notion of what God is.
God IS All. God is SELF. God is perfection and bliss. I don’t know of any other God. I want nothing. I AM Everything. That’s what God is.
Take a look at your life right now. Think what’s going on in your life. Are you happy, are you miserable, are you healthy, are you sick, are you rich, are you poor? Doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is everything you are is what you have identified with, somewhere, somehow. There is no power outside of your Self. There is no world outside of your Self. There is no creation outside of your Self. There is no universe outside of your Self. There is no God outside of your Self. You have given birth to all of these things. You are playing a game with yourself. You’re putting on an act. Why? Ask yourself.
Robert Adams
WHY ARE WE SO LOATHE TO SAY
” I AM GOD ” ?
Who decided to assault the English language by querying mockingly “Did you create everything?” Why not say instead: “Yes, and so am I. And so is he. And so is she”.
When we can finally, at long last, get over our aversion to claiming our rightful identity, we can put so many issues, that people fight over, to rest and get on with really seeing one another for their own unique expression of the perfection of God.
Can you think of someone who irks you? See them as God. Don’t be afraid to do it – that very act on your part could heal a long-standing ailment that you’ve been tolerating.
Do you feel that embracing your God-identity will make you look proud and arrogant? Just make a point of not acting proud and arrogant: let yourself love everyone more than you’ve ever been able to love before.
That’s what God is.
DrRobinStarbuck
STILL MY COMPANION AND FRIEND
When I was a wee child, I had more real problems than anyone I ever knew, but for one thing: I also had God. Not specifically masculine and never punitive, God was (and is) my constant companion.
The discovery that this self-same Companion was my very own being, my true Self, was astronomical! And then to come into the realization that God was 100% the Self of every single person who ever trod the globe – past, present and future, was utterly life-changing, again at a very young age.
Maturing in this mind-boggling Truth, I see God absolutely everywhere – but not without concerted effort in terms of focusing deliberately and with determination that refuses to quit! My companion, my love, my Self!
THE REASON FOR THIS MESSAGE is to let you know that I still have my childhood Companion – who saved my very life on numerous occasions. I even ask for things – of a spiritual nature, of course. By the time I fully remember that God and I and everyone are ONE … by that moment, my wish is a-l-w-a-y-s granted!
DrRobinStarbuck