A friend asked:
“Trying to know God with our mind is just mental gymnastics?”
Holger:
Mental understanding is theory, concepts, idols.
When we ‘figure’ life out, all we have is figures in our head, but not Life.
The word “water” doesn’t quench your thirst.
The word “God” is not God.
God is not “another”.
Life is a mystery to live, not a problem to fix.
Can you rest in and as “I don’t know”?
Not a stupid or intoxicated “I don’t know”.
Relaxing the sense of ‘me’, dis-covering being myself.
“… in God I trust and am not afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?”
The trap, for ‘me’, is to personify God, to make God into “another”.
God is Reality, the cause of the phenomena of Life.
Language is wonderful, but has its limitations.
“The only truth in the manifestation is the impersonal senses ‘I am’, all the rest are concepts”.
Concepts are ‘this world’ of name and form.
This world is not a mistake,
but we suffer when we have the me-virus.
What are you…
Are you a story, a thing?
For ‘me’ it was Magdi that provided the inner space and trust to sort out my mental confetti; to experience the difference between thinking ‘I am’ and being ‘I am’.
Unhappiness is a misunderstanding.
Quite amazing!