| WEEKLY MEDITATION We all know right from wrong before anyone teaches us. Watch a child. They feel injustice before they can even articulate it. This knowing isn't learned; it's inherent. It's God's voice within us, speaking before concepts cloud the signal. But then we build structures over this knowing. Parents impose rules. Culture adds layers. Religion creates frameworks. Even atheistic societies construct their own moral systems. These structures aren't evil - children need them. But somewhere along the way, we forget what lies beneath. The atheist makes himself the source of morality. He thinks he is the source of his goodness. He's forgotten the underlying knowing and believes his concepts created it. He's mistaken the map for the territory. This makes it easy to justify evil (to any degree). The religious person does the same thing, just with different words. "This is right because the scripture says so." But scripture is still concept, still structure. God's direct voice gets buried under human interpretations of God's voice. Both have the same problem: they're living in concept instead of connection. Here's what we've lost: the ability to know God directly, without the middleman of concept. To walk with the source of that inherent knowing instead of with our ideas about it. To trust the undefined truth that speaks louder than all our definitions of truth. This isn't anti-intellectual. It's moving beyond intellectual dependency. Children need training wheels; adults don't. Most of us are still riding with training wheels, justifying our choices through concepts, whether secular reasoning or religious doctrine, instead of walking hand in hand with the knowing itself. Stop being a sophisticated sheep. Stop letting concepts, any concepts, tell you what the voice inside you already knows. Take the leap from secondhand knowing to firsthand knowing. From relationship with ideas about God to relationship with God. The path is simple: Recognize the knowing that was there before you learned to think about it. Trust it. Follow it. Let it lead instead of your concepts about it. BY @MJ |
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| | All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
- Chuck Palahniuk | | VRILL INSIGHTS | THE HOLY PATH | 1) KNOW THAT GOD IS REAL | This is called faith. You must make the leap of faith to God because without God there is really nothing. Once you believe in God fully, you have the power of the creator by your side and all of a sudden you are unstoppable. Everyone, deep down knows that there is a God. The atheist is simply denying their own existence. If you don’t believe in God then really you just don’t believe in yourself. It always seems like the atheist is trying to justify his point of view whereas the believer in God is always grounded in truth and does not feel the need to prove why he is right. Faith isn't just a blind belief but is instead a deep inner knowing. Our souls inherently understand that we are here for a reason and we must act accordingly. But along the way many people get confused and start thinking they are all knowing. The atheist point of view might be the most egocentric one, because a lack of belief in a higher power means you think you are now the highest power. Know that God is real, and let your faith be the guiding force that leads you to a life of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. | 2) KNOW THAT GOD IS WITHIN YOU | God pervades everything, all the time. God connects everything to everything else. God can be found everywhere, including ourselves. God is not separate from us, God is in all of us. You don’t have to go searching all over the world and find a guru in the mountains to be in tune with God. He exists within you. The answers you are looking for are always within. To deny that God is within is to deny the part of God that is you. To know that God is within you is to recognize your inherent divinity, your innate connection to the source of all life. You don't need to search far and wide, the answers you seek are already encoded within your soul, waiting to be discovered and embraced. | 3) KNOW THAT GOD IS IN EVERYTHING ELSE TOO | The same way that God is in you, is the same way that God is in everything else too. The way you interact with the world is the same way you interact with God. How you treat others is how you treat yourself, because at the end of the day any act of hatred is done to God, either the part of God that is within you or outside of you. For this reason, every action must be made out of nothing but love and purity. Everything that exists has a spark of God within it. Even if it is almost none, it is still there. | 4) LOVE YOURSELF | To love God is simply to love yourself while loving the world too. There is no honor in helping everyone except yourself. If you only focus on others and do not do what you need to be happy and healthy, then you are ignoring the part of God within you. The best way to help others is through self improvement. To best serve others in this world, you must nourish the part of God within you first. There are too many people that only focus on helping others that they forget to do that which nourishes their own soul. What these people forget is that self improvement is one of the best ways to help others because of the inspiration it can create in other people. You cannot fully love others until you first learn to love yourself. | 5) LOVE EVERYTHING ELSE TOO | To love God, you must show respect to the world because God is in everyone and everything that exists. To show love does not mean do no harm. To love means to show respect and sometimes it is respectful to someone’s soul to show them violence, only if it is necessary, because their soul needs to learn a lesson. This is called Karma. The golden rule of all religions is to treat others with love and respect but this does not translate to treating others with kindness. Love can be violent if it needs to be. This is why if you see evil, it is a sin not to stop it. You must look beyond the physical realm for this to make sense. You are treating their soul with respect when you hurt people who need to be hurt by showing them that karma is real. Love will always overcome the evil in this world, but sometimes love comes in the form of a punch in the face. | All in all, show respect to yourself first and foremost, then give respect to the world and every living thing in it through actions of love and purity but at the same time, never take sh*t from anyone. | God is Great. | And were all gonna make it. | BY @THEVRILLER | |
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