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Drawn Towards God

As we meditate, this spark is kindled inside. As long as this spark is not kindled, we find ourselves restless even in the midst of all this beauty: beautiful mountains, beautiful lakes, beautiful land, beautiful paths, and beautiful people. When the spark is not lit inside, we feel we are lacking something, and often we do not know what it is. We think we feel this lack because something external is missing, and we keep on trying to find out what it is. But what we are looking for, what we are longing for, is the kindling of the inner flame that will reveal God to us.Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Kindle My Heart at 242-3.

Jesus replied:

In all truth I tell you,
no one can enter the kingdom of God
without being born through water and the Spirit;
what is born of human nature is human;
what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not be surprised when I say:
You must be born from above.
The wind blows where it pleases;
you can hear its sound,
but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit.
John 3:5-8, New Jerusalem Bible.

We do not meditate to invoke spirits. We meditate to invoke the supreme Spirit, or God. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Kindle My Heart at 3.

Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat--I am. Don't run from suffering, embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? Jesus, Luke 9:23-25,Peterson, The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary English at 141.

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