The proofs and evidences for the Reality of the 'Divine Referent' (most commonly called 'God') are three:
1.) The Existence and Experience of Consciousness (the Miracle of Awareness);
2.) The Universal Movement toward Ideal (the Transcendent Flow of Life); and,
3.) The Pervasive Thirst for Absolute (the Mystery of Grace).
However, just as the presence of a shadow implies the existence and shape of a Form, as well as the Light that causes Its cast, the shadow itself is identical with neither.
So also, the interpretations, symbols, and representations of the Divine (Absolute), while valuable, can only fail to encompass Its Essence and Entirety.
We can either lose our chronic dependence upon the 'symbols of our selves', or lose our Connection to the True. Either way produces a kind of death. Only the first death leads to Life, while the later form can only promise the struggle and pervasive incompleteness of mere survival.
The Greatest Blessing of our Existence is that the Choice is always available to us- but we Ourselves must Make It.
That is where it all Begins; We cannot Be Born otherwise.
In order to successfully Travel the Path of Truth, we must first Cease the chase for illusions.
When we Arrive at a Sense of our own Emptiness, there are three possible responses: Cover it over, struggle to fill it, or Realize the Reality of Its Essential Nature.
Only One of those responses Manifests Liberation- the others always lead away.
Ultimately, there is no way to be Authentically Established without first being Uprooted.
Self-Transformative Awakening- and thus Life- is inevitably traumatic (and the more significant the Movement, the more jarring it is), it is the Way that we Heal which makes the Critical Difference.
This is the Meaning of Life and the Purpose of Existence.
Search for No Other.
To sin is to separate and depart from the Objective. To Live is to Pursue the Perfection of Aim.
No matter how well we may think we understand, no matter how clearly we think we see, or how profoundly we believe- we do not truly Know until Experience is absorbed Deep within the Marrow of our very Existence, Founded within the very Heart of This Body Universal-
Be Awake, and Be At Peace.
One can survive without Love; but one cannot Live without It.
Water and air are necessary for survival, but Love is the Essential Quality defining the presence of Life.
Love and Consciousness are the Inhalation and Exhalation of the Process of Existence:
Breathe Deep, Breathe True, Breathe Always-
And never fear to Be That,
for Nothing Remains to fear.
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