What is your definition of God in twenty words or less?
God penetrates the whole of the phenomenal world, but transcends that world with unconditional love for all.
What makes God God, and what makes man man, and whatever happened to justice?
God is free in Love and opposites, and man (humanity) is free in love and opposites. Love binds, opposites separate. Love transcends opposites. Until one transcends opposites through love, injustice will prevail. Being free to judge opposites (justice is the opposite of injustice), man (humanity) is free to respond to injustice by working toward justice. Man/Woman is free also to become one with the divine through love. The gospel of Jesus tells us as much, “Love God with all your heart and do on to others as you would have others do on to you.” Practice these words and justice will be done. But, for those unwilling or unable to practice these words, love still offers salvation.
Love, propelled by the beauty it creates burns through the senses in music, poetry, literature, painting, dance—all artistic forms of expression follow from it. Without it, there would be no work ethic, no survival. Look beyond yourself, look to that world where creativity and love burns the brightest, and there you will find God’s image made whole in man/woman. Lover and beloved become as one in love. All opposites come together in love. Love is where liberation (and justice) takes place. Separation does not exist there. Freedom, beauty, and completeness are embedded there; life and death are embedded there.
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