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The Grand Illusion
Pursuing the horizon
“The birds don’t know they have names. Watching them, I thought, “who cares what they are called?” — Thomas Merton
I’ve come to believe the same applies to God. God isn’t invested in “titles,” we are. I don’t think God cares in the least what name or names we have created to describe Him/Her.
What need is there for a title or distinction when you “are all, and, in all?” Is it even possible for God to have a “need?”
We are one with God and therefore one with all of creation, we’ve either forgotten it, or we don’t want to believe it.
Our belief in “separateness” is the grandest of illusions.
Remember and Believe.
— Paul Pignal
‘Awareness knows no resistance and is, thus, peace itself; it knows no lack and is, thus, happiness itself; and it knows no otherness and is, thus, love itself.
— Rupert Spira
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
— Rumi
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“I saw a man pursuing the horizon”
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is…
