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I Am One, You Are One, We Are Altogether One...

"Split a piece of wood, you will find me. Turn over a rock, and I will be there."

This quote, taken from the Gospel of Thomas, epitomizes Spirit in its suggestion that God is everywhere. The point that Jesus of Nazareth was making with this statement was that he, much like Gautama Buddha and other avatars that came before and after him, had come to a personal identification with God, recognizing that God was within him, God was him and he was God.

These days, statements like that would probably get you locked up in a psych ward. But in truth, this experience is at the core of enlightenment, rapture, satori, samadhi and epiphany.

For more than 4000 years scholars, theologians and philosophers have sought to answer the question, "What is the True Name of God?" Gaia, Brahma, Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, Tao, The Great Spirit, the Universal Oneness -- and their avatars Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Shiva, and Mohammed -- all point us in the same direction. The answer, of course, is ME! -- as in you; God, by whatever name S/he is called, is within all of us.

So, tomorrow morning when you're shaving or putting on your makeup, take a moment to recognize that you are looking into the eyes of God. And, during the course of the day, when your boss gets on your nerves or your kids are making you crazy or someone cuts you off on the highway or the dog chews up your favorite slippers, take a breath and remember that God lives there, too.

I am One, you are One, we are all together One.

Namaste. (S., "I honor the Light in you.")


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HeeHee I Am the Walrus

I have to admit, as soon as I saw the title, the Beatles started singing in my head.


God is Within Me, Also

I love this blog. I am a very devout Christian, and I believe that this is a message that needs to reach all people. If everyone recognized the significance of God within themselves instead of looking outward for Him, more people would find the truth.


This belief that God is very

This belief that God is very interesting but sometimes it makes me confused because if god is in everything ,is god in evil too? or there are two different truth of God and Evil ?
homa


Good and evil

Homa...

What a fabulous question. And one worthy of a doctoral dissertation in theology.

Everything occurs in balance. You cannot have light without darkness, and you cannot have darkness without light. If there is good, there must be evil and if God is the Creator then, S/he is the antecedent and the perpetuator of all things...good and evil included.

The Hindu religion has a great take on this...in this patheon, Indra is the whole, and within Indra exists a trinity...Brahma, the creator, Shiva, the destroyer, and Vishnu, the sustainer. God, then, is all things...

By the same token, in the Christian religion, we can look at Michael, the Archangel. Michael is the strongest and most 'evolved' of the arcs. He is the the Warrior of God and the one who smote the dragon, casting Lucifer (also an arc, and a son of God, by the way) out of heaven...he is also the Angel of Death. Balance...always balance...

The regretable imbalance is often created by us...the all too human element...

Blessings,
Michael


Qualification

I said Christian religion...I meant Old Testament...sorry...

:-)
Michael


I Am One, You Are One, We Are All Together One...

To sense the inter-connectedness of things enables us to begin to rise above the conditional opposition within us. As we begin to sense the energy fields vibrations and fluctuations, our self-view and understanding of the world changes.

It's all about changes from with-in. We are all one people. There is no self. No me. We are all human beings with different manifestations called consciousness.

What good is a person's knowledge, in any faith, unless it prompts them to prevent the pain of other's as of it were their own pain.

Namatase,
Jalus

Getting There While Being There.


No Time to Lose

Tricia:

I'm wondering if you have read this wonderful book on the the bodhisattva ethic by Pema Chodron. It might be worth a look...

Blessings,
Michael


Altogether One

Michael:

Thank you for the above recommended book. I shall check it out.

Jalus

Namaste

Getting There While Being There


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