God

def: What IS. The true nature of reality.

“God” is just one of many names for “the True nature of everything prior to the stories I tell myself about it.” It’s reality before my identity kicks in, before I form an opinion, before I give things a name. 

Just what IS.

“What is” is everywhere.

“What is” is all powerful 

“What is” has no evil component to it (before my opinion).

It just IS.

The name “God” is unimportant. I use it when it’s helpful and I shed it when it’s not. Any name will do. Other names for the same thing include:

  • The Universe

  • The Way Of It

  • The Truth

  • Tao

  • Oneness

  • Reality

  • The Complete Laws of Physics

    • (including all those not-yet-discovered) 

...They’re all names for the same thing: what is.

When I let go of my story, my opinion, my arbitrary divisions and categories, when I release all of my names for things and my judgments about them, when I let go of trying to make things what I want them to be and open myself to what they are, what I’m left with a simple “is-ness” to everything and I see there is nothing to fear. “What is” is completely peaceful until I lay my story over it. When I understand the truth and power of this, a sense of peace and oneness and safety comes over me. 

This is what it means to “find God.” When I love what I’m seeing, it’s what it means to “Love God.”

It has nothing to do with religion or piety or goodness. It has only to do with noticing the incredible, unearnable gift of what is.