Chapter 2

To Love God
The First Great Commandment

Meditation for chapter: Be still and know that I am God, that I am Love.
Mantra ~Kodoish. Kodoish, Kodoish Adonai’ Tsebayoth ~ Hebrew

"We know how much God loves us because we have felt his love and because we believe him when he tells us that he loves us dearly. God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in them." ~ 1 John 4:16

“Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“A happy outcome to all things is sure.”
~ A Course in Miracles

A man came to a guru and challenged him,
“I will give you an orange if you can show me where God is.” The guru answered, “I will give you two oranges if you can show me where God is not.” ~ Source Unknown

“All of man’s troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~ Pascal



1) Thou shalt “love” the lord thy God with all thy “heart,” with all thy “might,” with thy “entire mind,” and with all thy “strength.”

Now this commandment has nothing to do with walking around acting all holy and self-righteous, and using holy names in our every day conversations, and never using profanity or going to church a lot. No! Forget all of that “you should do this stuff.”

In order to love God we must have the desire to know and understand God’s “way of being.” I remember when I was young a Televangelist program would come on Sunday morning and the opening remarks would always be, “Remember, He that is in you is greater then he that is in the world.” I always liked that, and it is profound to think that God is in me. My religion never taught me to find God inside of me, but that’s where I found God.

They taught me that I needed the church to find God? I guess if everyone found God on their own, that would be bad for business. God is in us, around us, in everything we see, hear, smell, taste and even more intuitively understand; “Omnipresent” - always with us and everyone else at the same time, and “Omnipotent” - all powerful.

In truth God is the space that unconditionally lovingly allows all things to Be. If you think about it God is the space that allows every thing to be, if there was not the space then your physicality would just blend in to every thing else but it is that space of precised nothing-ness that allows you to be, like a beautiful piece of music.

It is the space in between each note that allows the beauty of the music to be perceived with out the space it would just be noise. In truth all the space in all of the universe the nothingness is what we call God we are surrounded by and since every atom in your body is mostly space we are filled with the space we can call God. The greatest explanation of this is in Quantum Physics where they have found an intelligent link between every atom in the universe; this is called the “zero point field.”

In the Bible in Isaiah it says, “God’s voice is like a voice crying in the wilderness.” Also in John 1:23 he said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness...”

You will find his voice in the silence of your own divine soul; you don’t hear God with your ears or from someone preaching to you. When you have learned to quiet down your continuous ego-driven mind chatter and truly be at peace, then you will know.

Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the silence where you find God “the Gap,” the silence between the sound of OM or AH (two Sanskrit mantras). In other words, to know God you need to meditate and learn to calm down the restless mind of the EGO and learn to listen to God “with your heart.”

Meditation is learning to set aside the endless ramblings of the ego-driven mind and just be still; then you will feel God in your heart.
Now I would like to say a few things about meditation. If you try to force a stop to the mind chatter of your ego it will drive you nuts. Remember, “what you resist will persist.”

Instead, just watch your mind from a perspective as if you were watching someone else’s mind without a need to change it, just a desire to understand it. From this place you will notice, when you observe your ego, it will constantly change and eventually you will be able to let it do its thing and you can meditate undisturbed. When you understand your ego it loses all of its power to create distractions and illusions to get you off track.

The Ego has to make its self an unconscious process because if you observe its functions you will see it is extremely stupid, and totally insane, and it will always lead you towards pain and suffering. After many years of observation of my ego I see it is like a small mischievous child completely full of nonsense and often comical.
In the world we live in there are ultimately only two forces.

They are “love” and “fear.” These two forces are opposed to each other, and cancel each other out. In the realm of spirit or the Divine Universe there is only Unconditional love, Unearned love and it has no opposite, this is the driving force of the entire universe, it is eternal and limitless. So if you want to love God and be a force for good, recognize where you are coming from!

If your message is “fear based,” even if it is done in the name of good it is still opposed to love. To declare a war against any thing is to empower that you wish to eliminate, because this is an act of resistance. Also anything you fight against you don’t destroy, instead you empower it. This is so simple you may overlook it but don’t, it’s very important. You need to ask yourself, “Do I live in a safe and loving universe or am I in danger?”

“Your defenses will not work, but you are not in danger” ~ A Course in Miracles

We are not in danger, none of us. We are all being observed, loved, and protected constantly, without any judgments at all, just a desire for us to become continuous to love. Every single thing in the physical world is not permanent and will pass; the declaration “This to shall pass” is true about everything in the physical universe. The true you, on the other hand, is permanent and when the physical universe ceases to exist you will still be.

You are love! You are consciousness, forever alive in the present moment now. Love, as the world talks about it, has nothing to do with love but instead just an Egoic state of the desire to possess, and it believes by possessing this thing it desires, “ I somehow will be more.” Nothing you can possess will ever make anything “more” and will pass, and will leave you feeling empty and lost, ultimately causing pain.

There is a story of a man who married a woman because she could sing. On their wedding night she started to undress and he found she had falsies; she took off her girdle and her big belly popped out and when she took off her wig and makeup, that revealed blemishes and wrinkles and he looked at her and said: “Sing, for hell sake sing!”

True Love may be called many things. You could call it happiness, joy, bliss, freedom, awareness, consciousness, stillness, centropy, understanding, kindness, compassion, peace, empathy, Light, Spirit, God, the power of the universe, life force, timelessness or Eternal Life – it’s all the same – “Love.”

“Love castith out all fear” ~ Jesus of Nazareth

“Perfect love casteth out fear” ~ The Buddha

Fear, makes you think it is very important but it is pure Ego; it is Entropy, the downward spiral, the ultimate emotional vampire, and like Bran Stoker’s count can only remain as long as it is not exposed by the light of consciousness in the present moment; it is the desire to possess, the desire for power, fame and money; it is hatred, vengeance, lies, deceit, the great illusion, misunderstanding, the wicked one, war, destruction, decay, prejudice, the devil, Satan, Beelzebub, insanity, genocide, evil, the dark side of The Force, the anti-universe, the anti-Christ, or anything else that causes you to distrust yourself and others – it’s all fear.

Now if you have some fears that are very real for you then I could say they’re not real, and to you it will seem like I’m lying or crazy, but they are not real or a reason for you to be afraid. “fear is false evidence appearing real” and it is the opposite of faith; it’s having faith in reverse. It’s the belief that “shit will happen because it happened before” and as you perceived it at the time as bad then it will happen again. “As you believe, so shall you create.” It’s the belief that the past equals the future.

It is the belief that I am My past. It makes you think you are doing something very important, but it is only a resistance to the present moment. When we accept what is, we see that there truly is no reason to be afraid. In the light of pure awareness and consciousness there is nothing that will cause fear, you may need to spring in to action to take care of what is but never fear what is. Also there is not a single evil event or evil thing (a Judgment) in the world that you cannot trace back to fear! Not one!

Any message of fear promotes more fear and this is opposed to love; it is the opposite of God’s “way of being.” It is also not real in the realm of perception. So, how many messages a day do you get that promotes fear? How many conversations do you personally have that are fear based? How many decisions do you personally make because of trying to avoid something feared? How many news reports do you read or hear that make you fearful. Remember, ultimately there are only two forces in the world – “love” and “fear.”

That’s why Christ said, “Resist not evil!” Anything you are against is a fight against fear, and fear is not real, it is an illusion. It will seem real if we believe in it, but it is not real. Whatever we resist or fight against we empower, because whatever we focus on will grow. That’s the way the universe works. Again: God (the Universe, the Creator) is not fear! “God is love!” Anyone who would teach you to fear God, does not know and understand God’s way of being. This I speak with knowledge for I have experience God and I know for curtain he is love and love alone. If you want to be working with God’s or the Universe’s laws, just be for the opposite of what you are opposed to or afraid of.

Some people have learned to distrust and dislike the term, “God” because of bad or difficult experiences with religion. To you I say, “Use the term ‘Universe’ or ‘the Creator’ or ‘the Force’ as it doesn’t really matter what term you use. You can’t ever offend God; his way is “unconditional love.”

That means you cannot stop his love for you ever! That’s right - never! So don’t be against war, “be for peace.” Don’t be against anything you would judge as bad. Instead be for “all that is good.” “If there is anything good, loving, or of good report, seek after these things.” Any message against anything will produce the opposite of the desired outcome. This is because of the “law of attraction,” or you can also call it the “law of creation.”

This law is God’s law for the physical Universe and it will never change. It is one of the principles to which the Physical Universe is built on, and like God, it will never change. The law states, “That which is alike vibrationally (or energetically) will attract to itself that which is like itself vibrationally (or energetically).”

You could also replace the word “vibrationally” with “intention.” What you intend to bring forth, you will. Christ stated, “As you sow ( with your thoughts), so shall you reap” (in the mind set and physical world and your experience of the world). The Bible also says, “As you believe, so shall it be done to you.” You could also say, “What you believe in will happen, or what you think about all day long becomes your physical and emotional reality. As I said before, this is because of the way the physical universe works.

Whatever you focus on will grow. So if you focus on the crap you don’t want, you will get more of the crap you don’t want. So whenever you find something you “don’t want,” change it into its opposite and then go forward with what you “do want.” Always excepting what is nothing that shows up in our world is there with out reason so except what is, and you will be at peace. This shifting your attention to what you do want will change your world in every way.

Earl Nightingale stated in his famous recording called “The World’s Strangest Secret,” We become what we think about all day long. This, in a nut shell, is the law of attraction. Why is this so? Because God shares the power of creation with every man, woman and child on the planet, and so whatever people focus their attention on will grow and come into the physical world. God really does have a sense of humor when you realize that everyone’s life is just a “reflection” of their most dominant thought forms.

That’s really funny and ironic; also kind of sad when you think of all the people in the world who live in the insanity of fear and create more reasons to be fearful. “As you sow, so shall you reap;” if you sow seeds of fear, you will reap plants of more fear.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ~ Albert Einstein

When God created the heavens and earth and all living things, he saw all that he had created and said, “It is all Good.” Did He lie? Or is your present perception just skewed or the world’s perception of itself skewed? I know they are going to say that the Bible talks about how God gets angry and I’m saying the Bible is wrong. God is incapable of anger because he is incapable of illusion! We are only upset when one of our illusions are threatened. If you check in with yourself when you get upset, ask yourself, “What am I afraid of ? What am I attached to that I believe I will not be happy without?” You will find every time you are upset, it is because of a belief in a preconceived fear, a preconceived attachment a preconceived illusion.

“Seek Not to change the world but choose to change your mind about the world”. ~ A Course in Miracles

The world we live in truly works perfectly. The only problem is that so much of the population is not creating on purpose and that’s why there is so much chaos. As the population becomes more conscious we will see drastic changes for the good of all of mankind. So how do we move into the new paradigm? You need to see the world as God does - SEE IT IS ALL GOOD. If this is too far of a leap for you at first, just give it a possibility. Say to yourself, “Everything in the world is here for a purpose and its purpose is ultimately good.” Then look for the possibility of it being good and you will see it.

In Byron Katie’s “The Work” is 4 simple questions that can change any upset or fear in to “Loving What Is” the name of her first book.

So the law is, “Seek and ye shall find.” Everything in the world has a purpose and that is why it’s here. If its purpose is not a reflection of what works, it is a reflection of what doesn’t work and is a teaching tool and this is ultimately good.

Even fear is a teaching tool, but it still never works. “Where your heart is, there will your treasure be,” or there will you see results. Why, because you asked for it! So if all that God created is good and you see it all as good, you will take on the great attitude – “gratitude!” You will become grateful for everything. “ He that is grateful in all things shall have the whole world as his oyster.”

If you want to improve your personal world, right now, just make a list of what you are grateful for. Then tell God – “the Creator,” “the Devine Universe” - you’re grateful for this list and you will be filled with joy right now. You will feel the need to say out loud, “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” And, in fact, you can’t say it (“Thank you!”) with real intent without feeling God’s love and joy right NOW.

Now if you dislike someone, it is because you just don’t see them as God sees them. Whatever it is that they do is an unconscious act that they are truly not responsible for as they are innocent and blind to their dysfunctional behavior. Also, if you see any personal experience as bad, you don’t see the experience as God does. Even the bad ones are good because they bring continuous strength of character and understanding. And it is only a moment in time that will pass as everything in the physical universe is transitory and will eventually end.

So if you see any situation as bad, you’re taking a snapshot of a moment in time and drawing a conclusion that is false; you’re looking at the world through the distorted view of the Ego. God sees your heart, and he knows who you are, and he also knows you will become all that you are meant to become. To draw a conclusion in any situation, you don’t see the bigger picture, but God does. Remember, it’s not over ‘til you have drawn your last breath and then it’s still good because that which is “true you” continues on, just in a nonphysical form.

To let go of this delusion of understanding all you need to do is say to yourself, “I was mistaken to make this judgment. I will choose to leave the judgment of this moment in time up to the universe.” This powerful statement – “I was mistaken” – will change your world.

Good and pleasurable experiences makes life wonderful. But they usually don’t lead to growth. Even something like the war in Iraq right now is serving mankind because everyone in the world is watching and can clearly see that war is not the answer. And war is never the answer and never will be because. “to promote fear is to promote illusion which promotes Ego.”


“Father, Father! We dont need to escalate. War is not the answer, for only love can conquer Hate!” ~ Marvin Gaye

There is never a way to peace; peace is the way. Sometimes the purpose of the event is to just teach what doesn’t work. This gives the opportunity to choose a new direction and that is ultimately good. So how do we come to the consciousness of peace, forgive the terrorists; that’s right forgive the terrorists.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more. ~ Isaiah 2:2-4 KJV This I have seen!


“I am never upset for the reason I think.” ~ A Course in Miracles

Again, difficult experiences lead to growth, and this is all good. If you look back on your life, you will see that every difficult experience that you had was also the greatest teacher to open your consciousness to understanding and truth.

“What could you not accept if you but knew that everything that happens - all events, past, present and to come are gently planned by One whose only purpose is your good?” ~ A Course in Miracles

God is love, and the greatest thing we personally can do to honor him is to open our heart and love as he does – unconditionally. This is not as difficult as it may seem. Father Anthony DeMello in his religious retreat called “Wake Up to Life” says, “The largest things standing between us and God is our concepts and conditioning.” What he means by this is the way we were taught to look at things. He continues, “The only reason you are not experiencing God’s love or bliss right now is because you are focusing on what you don’t have; otherwise you would be experiencing bliss right now.”

The reason you are focusing on “what you don’t have” is you were conditioned to this by society. Society dictates, that in order to be happy I need everything. And it dictates, I will be happy when I have a new car, a new house, a new job, a new wife, a new boyfriend or a new city to live in. I need everything, but it must be new. All advertising is geared to promote the concept, “I will somehow be more when I possess this thing.” Nothing in the physical world can make you anything and will ultimately disolve into dust, as this to shall pass. And when I get this stuff I don’t need, my Egoic mind will tell me I need to keep them and so they become “an attachment.” I need to keep and protect my stuff!

I need to protect my stuff so you don’t take it from me. That’s why insurance companies make so much money because they are supposedly protecting us against fear of “what if.” But if everyone just put their money that they were spending on insurance in the bank they would have the money when a mishap happened, if it ever did.
Father Demello also says, “Society’s major preoccupation is to keep you sick, and the sooner you realize this the sooner you will be able to let go of it.”

The truth is, that in order for you to be happy right now, you don’t physically need anything added. You need to drop the foolish idea that society told you and me that you need things to be happy. Now don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with having anything. The universe we live in is filled with an abundance of everything we could possibly desire. And it is your birthright to create all the abundance you could ever desire. But desire is the source of most misery as “things” don’t bring happiness! Why, because happiness “comes from within us, not outside of us.”

So the truth is, you can be happy with or without anything. Yes, anything! Now, there is “awareness” and there is “conditioning;” the two are opposed to each other. We have many beliefs and ways of thinking we are not aware of and they control us like a computer program. Someone hits our button and we react; just the way we were programed. So we have become thinking, walking, talking, mechanical computers! That’s not human. Someone presses a button and we are up; someone else presses another button and we are down. “What you are aware of, you are in control of and what you are not aware of, is controlling you.” So what I am proposing is that you become aware of the programing.

Why? Because it’s not you, and it’s not human. So watch yourself as if you where watching someone else, with no need to change a thing, just a desire to understand. And when you do understand you will change with no work or no force; it will just happen without any effort of your own. The reason why I say, “Don’t try to change anything,” is this will just mess things all up, because you will be trying to change under the direction of your programing and conditioning the Ego, and this doesn’t work. In truth, you are perfect. You were born perfect; nothing is needed to be added to experience it now, though you need to drop something.

Jeff Hawkins is a research scientist of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute who is working on a scientific theory of how the brain works (by the way, there isn’t a theory yet). He says that the brain is nothing like a computer and it works nothing like a computer; that the brain needs to experience something over and over again in order to remember it, and the more it re-experiences something the stronger the memory you have. The brain also assigns value to things and brings them up the more they are used.

But the most significant thing about the brain is it is constantly predicting what will happen next, like when you listen to a music CD you have listened to several times; as soon as a song ends the next song will pop up in your head and you will have an anticipation and know the next song before it even starts to play. The brain is a predicting machine and that’s why we have intelligence, because we can predict what will happen next. The problem that arises is based on your belief system which will determine what you are aware of and how you will predict.

It’s like your beliefs overlay a template that literally will selectively remember experiences and edit out certain parts of the experience based on the belief system. It’s like your brain is an editing room and what parts get left in the movie of your life and the parts that go on the floor is determined by the beliefs you have about the world and how it is. And these belief systems limit life and the amount of joy and happiness we allow our self to have. We also have awareness of our self and how we feel about what we are doing or talking about.

We can even step outside of our self and watch yourself as if we were someone else. So just be aware and seek to understand yourself and others and then you will know. As you do watch your mind you will find that over 80% of your thoughts are just the unconscious, rehashing of random events and mental process that you have little or no ability to change as long as they are left in the unconscious.

“Awareness” is kind of like the driver of a tour bus who is having a conversation with you and at the same time he is aware of the bus and where it is going. And he says to you, “If you look out that window you will see.....” You see, he is aware of everything going on in the bus, outside the bus and you all at the same time. So when you are being aware, you don’t focus on one thing. This is a spotlight and often creates more violence and further programing.

“Understanding comes with the awareness of what is. There can be no understanding if there is condemnation of, or identification with what is. If you condemn a child or identify yourself with him, then you cease to understand him. So being aware of a thought or a feeling as it arises, without condemning it or identifying with it, you will find that it unfolds ever more widely and deeply and thereby discover the whole content of what is.

To understand the process of “ what is” there must be choice less awareness, a freedom from condemnation, justification and identification. When you are vitally interested in fully understanding something, you give your mind and heart, withholding nothing. But unfortunately you are conditioned, educated and disciplined through religious and social environment to condemn or to identify, and not to understand. To condemn is stupid and easy, but to understand is arduous, requiring pliability and intelligence.

Condemnation, as identification, is a form of self-protection. Condemnation or identification is a barrier to understanding. To understand the confusion, the misery in which one is, and so of the world, you must observe its total process. To be aware and pursue all its implications requires patience, to follow swiftly, and to be still.” ~ J. Krishnamu

So what I am advocating is “awareness.” “Awareness is like a floodlight, exposing everything at once.”
The brain processes around four billion bits of information a second but you are only conscious of around two thousand bits of information. Your awarness is already and always working. All you need to do is tap into this awareness and use it to see reality. Also, don’t seek after truth. Truth is not somthing you seek. Like the great Indian mystic’s say, “Just drop your opinions and then you will know.” Drop your prejudices, drop your judgments and then you will know.

Father Anthony Demello also said, “Some times we have to lose our concept of God to find God, “ so most religious people are as aware as a block of wood. “Why?” you ask. Because they already know or they think they know. “Lose your concepts of God and you will find God.” When you “think you know,” you are “closed off” to new information and new understanding. So if you can let go of your models and your preconceived ideas, then you will see the truth.

I recently read a quote from the leader of the church I grew up with. It was sad as the message was one of fear and lack of understanding God’s way of being. Mormon president, Gorden B. Hinckley said, “ It’s not that bad. This is what I tell myself every morning when I get up. God will not forsake us if we are worthy of his blessings.” Let me be so bold, to correct him! It’s all good! God is now and always was in charge of the universe. He will not forsake us ever, no matter what we do.

God’s love is unconditional and we can never do anything to stop this love from continually supporting us forever and ever. Amen. God never forsakes us; we forsake our self by allowing our self to believe in the Egoic illusions we were taught by society.

In the religion of my youth I was told you have to earn God’s love by doing stuff; stuff that promoted the Church. This is false. Every blessing from God is a “gift” and there is nothing ever required to receive this, but if you believe what your religious leaders say to be true, you will experience it as true, but not in a way that makes you free but because you believe it’s true. Remember the rule is, “As you believe, so shall it be done unto you, or so shall you experience.” But it still is not true. That’s why they call them “gifts of the spirit.”

We are constantly being blessed with God’s gifts every day of our life. Whatever we focus on is brought into our life. So if you focus on fear, gloom and doom, that’s what you get. You see, “free agency” is one of the laws of he universe and God will never take it away.

If we are bad stewards and bringing forth undesirable things, God allows it, because sooner or later you will see that it is not working and awaken. So learn to bring forth good and wonderful things by focusing on all that is good and then you will see how God was always with you every moment. He never will forsake you. You forsake yourself because you didn’t understand His way of being. You were searching for something you had all the time; you just didn’t know it because your society taught you to be one of the sleep walkers like everyone else.

“Almost everyone you see, everybody you know, and everywhere you go are asleep. Only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant utter amazment.” ~ “Joe Versus the Valcano” movie

"People see God every day. They just don't recognize him." ~ Pearl Bailey

Back to God’s “way of being” and my experience of God.
The problem lies in the fact that God cannot be described. Saint Thomas Aquinas said in his Summa Theologica, “The ultimate knowledge of God is to know that we cannot know God.” We can only approach Him, and in doing so we can see clearly, not the totality of what he is but what he is not. By grace, a higher knowledge of God can be obtained than by natural reason. The totality of God is beyond human comprehension.

In the book A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis wrote, “We cannot know God. Even our very questions are absurd.” It’s like trying to teach a blind man the world of color. You can’t.

In the Sanskrit Teachings this is called “the negative way.” Everything written about God is a clue, a concept, not the real thing. If I describe my experiences of God, you still will not know a thing about God because they are just words and concepts, an indication of God. Not God.

I grew up hearing about God and Jesus my whole life; sang songs about God and read the Bible. But the first time I experienced God I knew for certain this one thing - up until that moment I did not know God. I had concepts of and about God but I did not know him. My concept of God was more like my experience of my authority figures and I thought he was harshly judging me. Why? Because all of my role models were judging me harshly.

God is beyond description. Although you can experience God, to turn around and try to put that experience into words is almost impossible. One thing was clear which was – “God is love,” because the love experience is so profound it cannot be denied. The experience of God’s love is beyond anything that you can experience in this world. God is infinite and God’s love is infinite, and when you have experienced His love it is beyond description; every word you can think of falls short. “God’s love castith out all fear” because in the experience there is no place in you that is not filled with this Devine Love.

I could say God’s love is delicious, and it is; more delicious than anything you have ever tasted. And this is true, but you still don’t know God. Every word I can think of is unable to describe how wonderful the experience is. All I can say is when you have experienced God and his Infinite Love, you will long to experience it again and again and again. Nothing on this earth can compare. And I also understand everything I have said has not taught you a single thing about who God is. It’s just a model, filled with words and concepts but it is not the real thing.


In the Buddist tradition they say, “He who says, does not know; and he who knows, does not say.”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.”

~ The first verse of the Tao ~ From a translation by S. Mitchell

So the concept is not the thing, it’s just an indication of something greater. We wouldn’t look at a picture of cake and ice-cream and try to eat it; this is apparent and it would be silly. On the other hand, I so often see people who have read the Bible and say, “ I know and understand God and Jesus Christ.” This is absurd. The Bible is only a model or an indication of something much more wonderful. It’s just a model, it’s just concepts - not the real thing itself. The model of truth is never the truth itself any more than the blueprints of a house is the house.

“Whenever you are thinking through any concept or ideology, no matter how good it is, you have ceased to think. You might as well be a block of wood or a thinking, talking machine; now that’s not human.”
~ Father Anthony DeMello

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

So if you can get past the concepts and the models and be open-minded to be taught from on high, then we can learn anew.

“We never argue about the truth. We only argue about our concepts, opinions and judgments.” ~ Father Anthony DeMello

So to learn to use the power that the Divine Universe shares with us is to create good. To learn to love as God does, without conditions, then you will understand there is nothing to be afraid of, all is well. God is in charge and he will never, ever forsake you.


“It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain.”
~ A Course in Miracles

It’s our judgments, it is our prejudices, and it is our attachments that cause us pain. “As you believe, so shall you experience.” So just drop it - not through a force of will but through “awareness” and “understanding.” Allow yourself to realize your judgment doesn’t work for you and there is possibly a better way. And that way is “unconditional love.”


A Native American saying “No Tree is so foolish, to have the branches, that fight amongst its self.

It is quite possible to listen to Gods voice all through out the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way.

The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not.
It is the other part of your mind that functions in the world and obeys the world’s laws.

It is this part that is constantly distracted disorganized and highly uncertain.

The part that listens to the voice of god is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. It is really the only part there is. The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but with out reality of any kind...

Listen deep in to the silence. Be very still and open your mind.

Go past all the raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of the insane world. You do not live here.

We are trying to reach our real home. We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. We are trying to reach God.
Sit quietly and say Gods Voice speaks to me through out the day, closing your eyes on the world and realizing that you are inviting Gods voice to speak to you. ~ Lesson 49 from A Course in Miracles