ON THE DIVINE REALITY WITHIN

One way to summarize the essence of perennial wisdom (to paraphrase Aldous Huxley) is:

• There is a Divine Reality underneath and inherent in the world of things;
• There is in the human soul a natural capacity, similarity, and longing for this Divine Reality;
• The final goal of existence is union with this Divine Reality.

I suspect I lifted the above from one of Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations but I know not which one or even its date. The importance to me is the fact that it feels new to me each time I read it...and think, I've got to remember that. 

Actually, it comes to me that Huxley's Divine Reality is Joel Goldsmith's mystical, transcendental Presence within us that I so often quote. I find that thought...why does "explosive" come to me? But it does. That both of those concepts come from two such disparate souls...stops thought for the moment.

Huxley's novel Brave New World (according to Google, "a nightmarish vision of the future") could not be more dissimilar from Goldsmith's A Parenthesis in Eternity (according to me, a virtual How-To for living a turned-over-to-God life). And yet, I loved both. Admittedly, I read Brave New World twice in my youth, and anything of Goldsmith's almost daily for the past forty years.

My point being, our peace of mind can rest in knowing unto realization in our walking around world that there is a Power greater than self within which Power is on our side, has our back and loves us and those around us, be they friend or foe to our reasoning mind.

And so long as you do not know that to die is to become, you are just a wretched visitor on this dark earth. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Thank you.