Leo Tolstoy on God

LEO TOLSTOY ON GOD: "When you look inside yourself, you see what is called 'your own self' or your soul. You cannot touch it or see it or understand it, but you know it is there. And this part of yourself--that which you cannot understand--is what is called God. God is both around us and inside of us--in our souls.

The more you understand that you are at one with God, the more you will understand that you are at one with all His worldly manifestations."

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Spirit Operating FULLY in Those Not Awake!

Think of some of the most successful people you know.

These can be public figures or people in your personal sphere.

Think again about their overwhelming attributes. The qualities that stand out about them.

It’s an unknown something that makes them “tick.”

Yes. You can’t put your hands on it...but you know it’s there.

That’s it. That’s IT!

Spirit.

Within all these folks who don’t know the name of “God,” there is an overwhelming PRESENCE working in and through them. They are not aware of it, but you and the whole world of folks who know them are aware of “IT.”

We see it at work in and as their lives.

I have a pile of those people in my sphere...friends and acquaintances. They have a truckload of the stuff...without making any effort to do anything...but BE.

That’s where we all need to get.

I’m not equating material success to any spiritual aspirations we should have, but “success” often is the measure of the man. It is through material success that people of the “world” measure “success,” and it is through “substance” that people of the spiritual realm measure “manifestation."

When we wake up to the qualities operating in those who claim no allegiance to God, yet they go on rising and shining brighter than the rest of us, then we’ll fully understand the workings of God and the intimacies he wishes to share with us all.

God is not wishing and praying we’d go to church and “do good” and “right” by him.

No.

What’s he’s hoping those of us who are working so hard to connect to him will realize is that we don’t need to go anywhere to find him. He’s always at work in all of us...as us.

Where we tend to make our mistake is when we believe we have to do “something” to find him.

If only we can BE ...like the successfully unconscious folks that we know, then we’d get it right!

But you say you want to KNOW him...you answered "His Call" to your soul!

Yes. That’s right.

But what do we all do when we get "The Call"?

We begin searching.

That’s our first mistake.

When we realized "The Call"...the first time...the search had already begun and ...had ended.

That’s where we should have stopped and gone inside right to where "The Call" came through: into the Silence.

That’s the only searching that we ever need to do.

If you’re like me, when you got "The Call,” you began to look around...everywhere...BUT...inside of you!

If you’re like me, too, you went around many, many circuitous places and to so many faces of God that it’s no wonder you're probably still searching!

Like me, you may have gotten confused.

It was too simple.

"The Call" came from Inside...but you began to look...Outside.

“To and Fro” we go...
Here, there and everywhere...but...
Then, when all is tired and weary...
We give our soul a rest...
That’s when the answer we were seeking comes through.

I’m here.
I’m here.
I am HERE!


We feel grateful that we KNOW!

So, we begin to search for a place to PUT the gratitude.

Yes. A church.

An Anglican church. No. A Catholic church. Nope. A metaphysical church. Nope. A Buddhist church. Nay...nay...nay...a Hindu church. No...Christ church. No...no...no...

God speaks.

OBSTACLES appear in every attempt to connect closer to ANY church.


Do we listen? No. No. No.

I must...I must...let my gratitude SHOW!

Show to WHOM?

To the one who is already there?

No.

The only "gratitude"that is expected is to...“Get Closer, Child."

Go within.

Go into the Silence.

That’s the best form of GRATITUDE!

Not in a public display of TRUTH! Not in a public connection for TRUTH!

Only in the Silence...can TRUTH be told and GRATITUDE...fully expressed.

When you heed "The Call," the next and ONLY step should be to go inside...stay connected to the Inside.

That’s all the searching that is required.

In the Silence: no affirmations...no prayers...no words...no voice.

Be Still...in the Silence.

Witness the Presence. You, too, can become wildly
"successful" in the eyes of the world but...by being fully AWAKE!

Which "success" would you rather have?

Namaste’,

Che’

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Outstanding. You put into words what is the real deal. I often wondered about those people onward and upward who never seemingly acknowledged God. I attributed it to the karma in the journey they had and left it at that.
You have helped me again to clarify truth, and that is a mighty and wonderful task my dear friend.

Personal Authenticity: "To Thine Own Self Be True"...

"To Thine Own Self Be True and it must follow as the night, the day, Thou canst not then be false to ANY man."
William Shakespeare.