We must go beyond reason to love. -- Thaddeus Golas
We parrot what we have been taught; namely, God is love, ergo, we must go beyond reason to God. The catch, of course, is just repeating the words keeps us in the reasoning mind world of pretty words.
We must go beyond reason, yet trying to think our way out of reason, stays us in reason. The secret to transcending reason is realization. We can think God is love but unless and until inside our self we realize that, we are simply repeating words by rote.
I so appreciate the account of Howard Thurman stressing realization in coming face to face with God: The individual in the experience seems to come into possession of what he has known as being true all along. The thing that is new is the realization. And this is of profound importance.
Paradoxically, repeating those pretty words, God is love, keeps us heading in the right direction. If we are to be lifted into realization in this lifetime, repeating those words will not get us there, but we will feel peaced. That in itself is a beyond-reason pearl.
Thank you.
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