Thousands of pages of philosophy cannot contain it. The myriad verses of the Bible, Torah, Qu'ran, Vedas, Sutras of the Buddha, cannot comprehend it. The dharma talks and guided meditations of all the new-age "spiritual teachers" cannot approach it. It is beyond the believer and the non-believer, beyond left and right, beyond the masculine and feminine, the rich and poor, enlightenment and ignorance, duality and non-duality. It is an infinite yet intimate simplicity.
ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ὁ εἰπών Ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψει, ὃς ἔλαμψεν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν πρὸς φωτισμὸν τῆς γνώσεως τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν προσώπῳ Χριστοῦ.
"For the God who said, Let there be light shining out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the radiance of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." (2 Corinthians, 4:6)
Open your fist, hold out your hand and see. You are holding all the stars. Open your chest and breathe. You are breathing all the love. In the depths of the rose, in the center of the galaxy, in the heart of pure Being, the singularity of an ineluctable gaze: God is a person, God is a person, God is a person.
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