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Thoughts with a tooth brush.

I was talking to an atheist recently who was sure there is no God in this universe.
I had never had this thought before, but I realized that knowing there is no God is perhaps as foolish as knowing there is one.
The fact is we can’t know.

I thought I heard it put best in the movie, "What The Bleep Do We Know?"
One of the points of the movie is to observe how close science and mysticism have become.
Many physicists were interviewed and in this "post-Quantum" era they are making declarations that are more and more in alignment with what the ascetic poets and yogis said a thousand years ago.

Towards the end [of the movie] one physicist said "We have about as much chance of understanding God as a fish has of understanding the ocean he’s swimming in."
Boy, that hit me like an anvil!
Of course!
How could finite beings understand the infinite?
How could one drop of an ocean conceive of the entire ocean?

Ah, but one drop of ocean can merge with the ocean.
It can do nothing else.
We can not understand the God we speak of, but we can merge with Him/Her/It.

This is the incredible aspect of being human.
All other animals are naturally aligned with nature, and play their part.
Humans have the intellect and choice of whether to merge with that ocean we call God, or be a single drop, left alone to evaporate.

But that wasn’t really the point of my story.

While brushing my teeth (when most of my good ideas occur), it occurred to me that the avowed atheist I was talking to would be in total harmony with certain spiritual paths.

In the path of Yoga, a great being, Swami Muktananda has told his disciples, "Meditate on your own self. Worship your own self. God dwells in you as you."

I suddenly realized that the atheists’ claim that there is no god, just us, is in agreement with the statement "God dwells in you as you."

I guess the only difference is that if we know we are God, if we worship at the temple of our body and our mind, if we worship at the alter deep inside our soul, we will bloom into our full potential as loving, creative beings.

–Kenny Werner
www.KennyWerner.com
 

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