God loves us all unconditionally.
That is the truth on which our faith rests.
God loves God's whole creation all the time.
Human beings, however, want to be in charge. We have separated ourselves from God's unconditional love because we want to be special. To be special be must compare and in comparing there are winners and losers. Our specialness excels at the expense of others.
In the desire for specialness the law, which we have made up because it isn't of God, of scarcity has been created. The law of scarcity requires winners and losers and to be a winner we must fight, we must attack others. The corollary law is "get them before they get you." With the creation of this corollary law of "get them before they get you" we have created hell, hell on earth.
Hell on earth is of the making of human beings who are willful. It has nothing to do with God. God's world of unconditional love knows nothing of scarcity. In God's world there is enough for everybody.
How do we who understand get of the world of hell we have created to the world of unconditional love of God?
First, we need to understand. We need to understand that the hell on earth is the handiwork of mortals.
Second, we need to intend to live in a different world than the hell we have created.
Third we need to act by forgiving ourselves and others for our selfish, greedy behaviors.
Fourth, we need to love ourselves by loving others and sharing what we have not jealously protecting it.
The law of God, which all the great religions teach is, is the law of abundance.
We have to chose whether we want to live our lives by the law of scarcity or the law of abundance.
Simple choice. Easy to make. Harder to implement at first as we transition. However, with practice living by the law of abundance comes naturally.
The idea of the Perennial Philosophy of Aldous Huxley leads one to the idea that God is too big for any one religion. How is it that sometimes people outgrow their religion of childhood? James Fowler, among others, has mapped out a model of spiritual development. Osho says that a person cannot enter into a spiritual life until he/she rebels against childish religious beliefs. Notes On A Spiritual Life intends to explore deeper understandings of an authentic spiritual life.
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