IT IS IN THE SILENCE....

I remember when first I realized that we seek still more spiritual growth not for knowledge but for  experience...not for knowledge of the spiritual but to experience the Spirit within us.  

Without the experience of God within, we do not have God in our heart, we have eyebrows-up knowledge...and that is all. And there...that's the ultimate ego trip including bragging rights. Ego may quote scripture better than a God-fearing preacher, but there is no back-up to it.

Until we can prove what we're quoting, as in, until we have life experience with what we're saying, we have head knowledge only. I'm a believer that head-knowledge to God is the least of all the human attributes.

Here's a couple sobering thoughts: over-analyzing is a control mechanism of the ego, and reading anything repeatedly does not educate us more with each reading. One of Jung's foundational ideas, I understand, is that mere words and concepts do not give us access to the unconscious.

Reading, studying, sharing...that's the logical starting place, but it is in the silence of meditation, the stilling of the over-active mind, that we make our self available to God. The stilling enables us to hear God, should he chose to speak.

Be still and know that I am God.

Thank you.