Interacting with people who have very different views is, I think, a necessary and useful thing. Even if they’re never going to win you over to their way of thinking, listening to them makes you think harder and deeper about your own views, why you think the way you do.
When I say ‘find God in myself’, then, what do I mean?
‘God’ is a very big word…or rather, a very small word for the biggest idea of all. When I say God I mean the totality of Being…the Reality that we’re all part of, can never be separate from…but are often unconscious of.
Not the ego, but what lies beyond the ego – the realest part of self. The part in which we rest when we are, truly, being ourselves and not thinking about it; when we love, create, fully live life in the moment.
It’s bliss. It’s the deepest thing there is. As I said before, I don’t touch it nearly often enough, but when I do…
I don’t want to sound high-falutin’ or like I’m making myself out to be anything special, because I really am not. I’m as ordinary and fragile and imperfect and pissy and scared as anyone else in this world, I assure you. The beauty of it is that, human as we are, we all touch that occasionally, touch the heart of things and really know who we are. If you’re honest with yourself (yes, you, if anyone is bothering to read this!) you’ve been there too, and you know it’s real.
The question is, as always, how to remain in contact with This, in this life we lead. That’s the thing…
(Also, to be slightly more mundane, I think I’m going to have to read that entire play. I’m rather ashamed to say I haven’t; I’ve just seen it quoted in a number of places. I owe the author that much respect, at least, and I’m in the vicinity of a large public library tomorrow, so I may well try and find it.)
