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