"The good news is that we do not need to be talking to God or even thinking about God to be in prayer. We can simply be with God. That is the nature of communion. It is not dependent on constant communication. Think, for example, of being with someone you love and with whom you experience deep communion. Words are undoubtedly part of your being together, but notice how easily they can also fall away as you slip into a comfortable experience of simply being together in unworded presence. The same can be true of prayer.
Love makes this possible, and it is love that makes prayerful communion so fulfilling and transformational. Communion with God is the answer to our heart's deepest longings, because God is love. Prayer is a relationship. It is a dialogue that is based on a deep personal encounter. And since God is love, God can only be truly encountered in love." - David G. Benner
Darwin's Perspective: As I scour literature in search of quotes to share with you to reinforce this message of choosing love, I try to find passages that truly capture the essence of my teachings that can be applied in every day life. After all, if you can't apply a teaching in your regular day then it is hardly useful for bringing about change in your life. But so too, I shy away from passages that constrain wisdom to a single teaching, path or approach. There are many paths to a Spiritual existence and thus I shy away from authors that use words like "only."
However, in this case, I agree with David Benner that God is love and that God is encountered through love. In short, God is love and God created everything that is so that love can be fully actualized; as it requires being shared between two. Thus God, in a singularity, is less than complete and by creating all that is with the un-mandated choice to choose love, we live our lives in a free-will environment where we get to decide the fate of humankind. We are not merely passengers in life, but rather each of us hold within us the conscious ability to change the world. We get to change the world by choosing love.
For those of you that are into quantum physics, you will note that this is an interesting concept as God exists outside of the dimension of time. Thus God has created everything that is within the dimensions of our Universe (which includes time) but also since God exists outside of these dimensions... God is both complete and incomplete. In essence, God has introduced the ability for us to choose love to become fully actualized and, at the same time, is not incomplete for Humanity will one day awaken to this choice and choose Love. The only thing that is in flux is how long it will take Humanity to wake up to our divine purpose to choose love.
For those that are awakening, there is a blossoming of consciousness which introduces an awareness of our ability to choose love in our daily lives. This is not a one time event or a philosophy that changes things simply because you believe. This is an awakening where you recognize that by living your life in purpose, all the time, the world changes. The problems that we see in the world will not be fixed by others making changes. The problems change when we change. When more and more people awaken to living their life in purpose. These are the significant moments in the shift of history. When Humanity shifts, everything changes.
But if we wait for others to change this becomes a standoff. With everyone waiting for everyone else to change...the world remains the same. But as more and more people awaken to live their lives in purpose the scales to balance tip back to love. They tip back to God.
Love makes this possible, and it is love that makes prayerful communion so fulfilling and transformational. Communion with God is the answer to our heart's deepest longings, because God is love. Prayer is a relationship. It is a dialogue that is based on a deep personal encounter. And since God is love, God can only be truly encountered in love." - David G. Benner
Darwin's Perspective: As I scour literature in search of quotes to share with you to reinforce this message of choosing love, I try to find passages that truly capture the essence of my teachings that can be applied in every day life. After all, if you can't apply a teaching in your regular day then it is hardly useful for bringing about change in your life. But so too, I shy away from passages that constrain wisdom to a single teaching, path or approach. There are many paths to a Spiritual existence and thus I shy away from authors that use words like "only."
However, in this case, I agree with David Benner that God is love and that God is encountered through love. In short, God is love and God created everything that is so that love can be fully actualized; as it requires being shared between two. Thus God, in a singularity, is less than complete and by creating all that is with the un-mandated choice to choose love, we live our lives in a free-will environment where we get to decide the fate of humankind. We are not merely passengers in life, but rather each of us hold within us the conscious ability to change the world. We get to change the world by choosing love.
For those of you that are into quantum physics, you will note that this is an interesting concept as God exists outside of the dimension of time. Thus God has created everything that is within the dimensions of our Universe (which includes time) but also since God exists outside of these dimensions... God is both complete and incomplete. In essence, God has introduced the ability for us to choose love to become fully actualized and, at the same time, is not incomplete for Humanity will one day awaken to this choice and choose Love. The only thing that is in flux is how long it will take Humanity to wake up to our divine purpose to choose love.
For those that are awakening, there is a blossoming of consciousness which introduces an awareness of our ability to choose love in our daily lives. This is not a one time event or a philosophy that changes things simply because you believe. This is an awakening where you recognize that by living your life in purpose, all the time, the world changes. The problems that we see in the world will not be fixed by others making changes. The problems change when we change. When more and more people awaken to living their life in purpose. These are the significant moments in the shift of history. When Humanity shifts, everything changes.
But if we wait for others to change this becomes a standoff. With everyone waiting for everyone else to change...the world remains the same. But as more and more people awaken to live their lives in purpose the scales to balance tip back to love. They tip back to God.
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