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There is no God simply because God has no inside and no outside and no boundaries. And no name except every name. To even speak the word 'God' reduces God to a thing. A concept. Boundaried, divided, separate from you. There is no God simply because everything is God. God is just another name for All There Is and All There Is Not. And your 'belief' or 'disbelief' is beside the point. Hallelujah. Fall down on your knees. Run through the streets, laughing. Even the dog shit is holy!  - Jeff Foster

"Sometimes you don't get to be a Buddha. Sometimes you just have to break. And feel. You have to lose your precious 'spiritual awakening'. You just have to be a human being, feeling. Sometimes old pain resurfaces. Old fear. Sorrow. Trauma. The searing ache of the abandoned child. The rage of a forgotten universe. And suddenly, all of your spiritual insights crumble, all the beautiful spiritual words by the beautiful spiritual teachers, all the concepts and ideas about awakening and enlightenment, and the pure perfection of pure untainted awareness, and the selfless non-self self, and the path to glorious futures, and the wise guru, they suddenly are all meaningless, empty words, second-hand drivel, and dead to you. What's real, now, and alive, is the burning in the belly, the fire in the heart. Unavoidable. Intense. So close. So present. Sometimes you just have to feel. You have no choice. And sense your feet on the ground. And breathe into the dis...

A NEW DAWN: "You cannot save anyone. You can be present with them, offer your groundedness, your sanity, your peace. You can even share your path with them, offer your perspective. But you cannot take away their pain. You cannot walk their path for them. You cannot give answers that are right for them, or even answers they can digest right now. They will have to find their own answers, ask their own questions or lose their own questions, make friends with their own uncertainty. They will need to make their own mistakes, feel their own sorrows, learn their own lessons. If they truly want to be at peace, they will have to trust the path of healing that reveals itself step by step. But you cannot heal them.  You cannot diffuse their fear, their anger, their feelings of powerlessness. You cannot save them, or make things right for them. If you push too hard, they may lose their own unique way. Your way may not be their way. You did not create their pain. Y...