Talking to God About God

There are many reasons cited as to why you shouldyou have free eagles soaring through your
help other people. Not many advise you to do it asimagination, is time spent dragging you both down.
an act of selfishness, but we do. It is wisely, skilfullyThe sick bird will scare you with pictures of
and divinely selfish to awaken people to theirentrapment and suffering mortality. The eagle will lift
exceptional potential.you out of the stodginess and show you expanded
For a start, the greatest help you can offer a friend,horizons. Both are relaying a version of truth and you
a community, a nation or a planet is to express thehave the choice which one you focus on.
original truth that burns uniquely at your centre. UntilAlthough it is necessary sometimes to define a
you are self-centred enough to know what youproblem before solving it, this should never be
stand for and courageous enough to stand up for it,confused with telling the old, old story of victim-hood
everything you offer will be middling shades of blandand struggle. A solution has a lightness and a sense
and mediocre flavours of lukewarm.of creative responsibility about it. It doesn't have the
Once you start following your bliss and moulding thestultifying pallor of fear or the debilitating urge to
clay of your being with eccentric passion, you startrepeat the overwhelming odds stacked against it.
offering guidance to all those around you. Your mereSome people are perpetual 'Ancient Mariners' who
presence as a happy, focused, centred being is ajust must tell the 'reality' of the monumental
source of encouragement. But many peopleunfairness of it all. You thrill at a fritillary butterfly and
attracted to your enlightened expression will bringthey talk about the poisonous pesticides; you rejoice
along their baggage and be quite eager to leave it inin the hot summer and they counter with global
your locker.warming theories; you sing the praises of the sunset
Thousands of sunsets could be wasted swillingand their head is filled with the air-borne pollutants
around with them in pointless pools of argument andthat deepen the colour. If you offer them fresh new
stodgy puddles of unfairness and deep swamps oftales of the majesty of their divinity and they insist
hopelessness. And each wasted sunset delays theon rejecting it for the melancholy comfort of their
fulfillment of your dance and their dance. If you wantsuffering, do not join them there out of a sense of
to help, don't jump in the swamp and wallow, butmisguided compassion.
give them a hand up by resolutely recognising theirKeep always in the radiant certainty of your centre
divinity.and if the other dancer refuses to acknowledge their
Everyone knows of, and yearns for, that feeling ofexceptional potential and insists on dancing small with
deep belonging that remembering your god-hooda bubble-wrapped god inside them, then bless them
brings. And the moment you find the access shaft toand let them go. Planet earth is not best-used as a
the mine of someone's passion, you are digging divinebattlefield for proving how tenaciously buoyant you
diamonds in seconds. As soon as eyes light up withcan be despite all the small-minded negativity fired at
enthusiasm and voices rise with eagerness, the spirityou. It is better as a playground where you can
starts to expand and the air is tinged withdance with lively, excited, confident minds that share
champagne. It is like the aroma of freshly-cookedyour belief in the exceptional potential of all humans.
bread to the hunger of the soul.Together you can create extraordinary landscapes of
There is a god hiding in everyone. If you don't wantlove.
to lose your life in tedious mediocrity, find the hiddenBe divinely selfish, for this seeming paradox is true. In
gods and celebrate them. The clearer you link up theserving your own deepest interest, you will best
circuit, god-centre to god-centre, the stronger theenable the other dancer to see the potential of their
flow of electrical divinity will be. All conversations toown mighty truth. You help them, not by joining
do with the fulfillment of desire, the appreciation ofthem in their imagined suffering but by demonstrating
life and the ecstasy of love come from thea different way of looking at the situation based on
god-centre. All conversations relating to the stupiditytheir god strength. The more you surround yourself
of governments, the unreliability of markets and thewith people who want to be the best they can, the
unreasonableness of workloads dampen the flow.faster you will unleash the full reach of your
Time spent talking about birds in sick cages, whenstaggering potential.