Blank Doll asks.

I was just walking about a while ago and the weather was very fine. It was windy, the ixoras were red not because I perceived them to be but because they were, the grass was green and the infinite breadth of the sky took my mortal breath away.

Then I wondered why people even need religion to get to God. Truly, you demean God when you think of God only as a people God. You belittle the concept of God's omniscience when you think all God is concerned with are the sins of people, their souls and their salvation. The God of humans is the God of the everything else as well. God created the world, or rather, God is the world not for the sake of mankind. To see God from this angle is to think too highly of one's nature as a human being.

By that same extension, why are you reading your scriptures? Why are you singing in worship and gathering inside cold buildings of concrete and stone? Why are you playing with handcrafted beads or following some obscure ritual?

Why are you not looking about you appreciating the fellow kin that God has made? Why are you to smiling at the trees and the rivers? Why are you not exultant and in love with God with every breath of air you take because every breath of air, every molecule is a part of God? Why are you not celebrating your role as one in the greater scheme of God where humans are but a single child of God amongst many?

I think to believe that the world is immaterial, that the realm of the material is base and not desirable is not the way to God. The rigidity of rational thought isn't either. Nor is the blind fervor of faith. The first leads to debauchery, the second to atheism and the third to religion.

None to God, or at least, not that greater entity, that supreme being.

Look into yourself and unlock the door of your self so that you are linked once more to the world. We don't do it most of the time but when you do try, the results can be quite startling. Why don't we do it more if it's so good? Because it reveals the prejudices upon which we base our lives to be meaningless and hurtfult, because it destabilizes our lives. We don't want to think about it. We don't want to stop judging because being critical of others make us feel better about ourselves. We don't want to stop thinking of ourselves because we are afraid of losing our sense of self.

But once in a while, one should seek to hold silent counsel with God. Prayer is a good way but it is a limited way. Meditation is good but it must be channeled properly.

God can find you though, because you are part of God, because you are God.

God is a brilliant concept, a magnificent entity. All our experiences are like votive candles before the metaphysical altar of God.

C'est tout.