Artie asked does god exist?
From my scepical beginnings I would now say absolutely YES but with a number of qualifications.
1. The word has been so abused for personal and institutional gain that lacks respect.
2. We explain complex phenomena such as personal feeling using commonly understood figures of speech [metaphors].
The mistake is to take it as real [literally]
3. A more use ful word suggested by acclaimed writer Eckhart Tolle is 'inner being'
How do we find the inner being ?
a] Reflect on our capacity to experience beauty and joy [and their necessary opposites.
b] Read 'The Power of now' by ET
The 'inner being' is for each of us to find.No one can do it for us.Its an understanding one builds by hard work. The joy of its discovery is the source our capacity to selflessly love others. Forget the attachment stuff that belongs to preadolescence and is crippling.
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