My Conclusions Thus Far in Life
Basically, through my 29 yrs of studies, experiences and perceptions of life, I've recently concluded this:
God is all that exists, but not all that exists is God.
(There's just something grey there, but I can catch it--kind of like that little sketch, if you know the one, of the lines that looking at them one way look like a vase, and the another way is the profiles of two people. That grey area is you're perception, but you can't explain how your view of the picture changes. Your brain takes the visual clues and translates it for you. Soon your brain re-adjusts and looks at it another way. Typical optical illusion.)
For some odd reason putting in a different word in place of "all" in that statement makes it more obvious to me-->
God is a jelly donut, but a jelly donut is not God.
You really have to let it flow into your thoughts but if you get it... Cool, eh?
Anyhow..so God is you and me and that table and that star and ALL. Any attributes we apply to God are but a wee tiny bit of the whole. God is more than anything we can imagine, but is everything that exists.
god = that which is
So any effort of religion or perception of mankind is limiting God in ways that shouldn't be done, but are. To say the Christian View or the Buddhist View or anything that tries to answer why, what, where, who, how and when is wholly correct -- is like saying that a PIECE of Pie is the Whole F**king Pie...AND the platter it is cooked in,
what it's made of, the counter it rests on,
the knife that cuts it, the heat that cooks it, themouththateatsit, thewindthatblewthewheatthatgrewtheflourthatmadethecrust.......and so on.There aren't many paths to God. God isn't anywhere to get to. God is every expression on every face. God is you talking, and the God is the person you are talking to. God is the person being killed, and the person doing the killing. God is the loving parent, and the loved child. God is the one looking in the mirror, and God is the mirror and the image in it. God is the smallest building block of the universe. God is the creation and the destruction. God is the action and reaction. God is the singularity and the duality. God is
Ad Infinitum.Limitingly attributing God is our perception, and in many cases we take someone else's or many other else's perceptions as our own. The Guilt the Fear the Love the Anger the Joy the (et cetera) is all Human. God is me, and everything percieved at any time about me. God is me, but I'm not god. I'm a limited view that on my very very very best day can merely glimpse one fraction of the merest iota of the Infinity that God is.
We mankind forgive ourselves..we mankind make the horrors, the ecstasies the blah blah blah the RULES and REGULATIONS about how WE live...but God is. We are our emotion (including worries and fears), our clocks & calendars, our perception. And because we do this, the biggest of all things to strive for is not nirvana, wormfood, salvation, or any little limited thing we can perceive/imagine, BUT -- that we may/can have PERSPECTIVE...and strive to quit limiting ourselves, individually and one another and THAT WHICH IS. (and I don't mean existentialism)
And...y'know what? I always knew the above but listened to the perceptions of humanity's religions/philosophies thinking they had answers to the why, what, where, who, how and when of "god"--I searched seeking the MORE, the FAITH (or lately the "enough" FAITH, whatever the hell that means), the PATH...basically - the ANSWERS. What I've concluded is that those are so much LESS. Science can answer those for some, so can Religion. But then why do they not agree???? Limited perception. I cannot be wholly objective, my whole reality may be an illusion, I have no evidence that is indisputable to everyone. I don't care, everyone disputes.
God Is.
This is a Fact. Reality is. We are. You do not prove a fact. And to describe God is impossible, you'd have to answer all the who's why's etc for every single thing in existence including the when's and we haven't even begun to realize everything in existence and have no grasp of all the when's. God Is. That includes past, present and future.
That I've even decided to call anything 'God', limits it to every other human being with ANY preconceived notion of the word. I could easily not call it God, and just call it all the billions of words we use to describe all that is. Reality? Sure. Existence? Sure. All? Sure. So why bother calling it God? Because I seem to have been socialized into having this word god in my language, the society seeking to define it for me but no two definitions completely congruous, and I couldn't find a way to understand either that it does or doesn't exist or be complacent enough to accept to not know and leave it dangling there like a hangnail. I know there's an entire realm of existence around me. This is simple. If it bothers you for some reason, perhaps you might ask yourself why it would..do you have some preconcieved notions of the word "God" that you don't like me using it MY way? With or without my view on anyone's definition of God, they will continue to perceive it THEIR way.
Go on..ask. "Does this change anything at all for me, now that I've (ha ha jokes on me) 'remembered' this?" Not a thing..except that from now on I'll know that God is/was/will be, and I AM, but I am not God. And that is One of the ways It Is. Next? Well..from here I need to work out my perspective, my relativity, my synchronicity, and my perceptions. Which is something I've always known and done anyway...soooooo -- nothing has changed.