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SELF-AWARENESS
Alan Watts Said Something I Didn’t Want to Hear
15 words that helped me understand myself better
I never used to like God. I didn’t think He liked me either.
I wasn’t even sure He existed.
My young mind found it hard to imagine that a fatherly figure in the sky was looking down on me because it just didn’t add up. Even back then.
Then, years later, I found myself on a spiritual path, and my understanding of God changed.
I learned that God goes by many different names in my many different cultures. In Christianity, there’s Jesus (obvs). In Hinduism, God is known as Brahman. Sikhs chant Waheguru. And Jews refer to HaShem as the omnipresent one.
In my spiritual circles, God can be known simply as Love, the Divine, Universal Consciousness, or the Great Spirit.
Any one of the latter groups is where my understanding of God now lies. I often interchange God with Love, The Divine, Universal Consciousness, and The Great Spirit. And because of that, there isn’t one God but every being on Earth — visible and invisible — is Godly.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” (William Blake)
