It seems a contradiction. Is God beyond you or within you? How do you find God? Though the answer comes rather easily in intellectual form, to live it, not as a philosophy but as a living physiological reality, is quite another.
The temple is an excellent place to worship the outer expression of Divinity, as it is readily accessible and lively there. There, too, is the invitation to find God within. However, much of that is dependent upon your relationship with the temple and with God. Do you hold God outside of yourself? If so, how does that ‘look’ and how does it feel? Are preconceived perspectives of God coloring your relationship with God. Does what you have come to believe from earlier life experiences interfere with a deepening understanding of God?
Reverence does not mandate subservience.
Through meditation, you awaken to deeper levels of your own being. Thereby your relationship with God deepens.
Ultimately, you find God within yourself while at the same time, you are enraptured by the most sublime reverence for God as just slightly afar… just enough so that God may be worshipped with limitless humility at an infinitesimal but exquisite distance.
Love is the Divine longing to merge. Such separation is sweet, profound, …exquisite.
So, it seems perhaps that God is more of a verb than my earlier experiences had me believing???
Hi Julie,
I would not really say it that way. Perhaps you could say a multifaceted noun? But we probably do better to stay away from the grammatical and just understand the concept.
Existence is multifaceted…. many simultaneously valid yet contradictory realities. You and I are one. You are you and I am a separate person from you. Both have their reality. See? As you awaken to that as a living reality with all things, you awaken to that with God.
That is who you are. If a verb would be involved, it would be ‘to awaken’ to the nature of the nouns, ‘you’ and ‘God’.
Thank you. I have heard that many times now and this time it rested subtly deeper. Maybe I am anticipating next week:)