How to find God
God, Benedict says quite clearly,
is within us to be realized,
not outside of us to be stumbled upon.
It is not a game of hide-and-seek we play in the spiritual life.
It is simply a matter of opening our eyes to the light that drives out the darkness within us.
“How does a person seek union with God?” the seeker asked.
“The harder you seek,” the teacher said, “the more distance you create between God and you.”
“So what does one do about the distance?”
“Understand that it isn’t there,” the teacher said.
“Does that mean that God and I are one?” the seeker said. “Not one. Not two.”
“How is that possible?” the seeker asked. “The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and the song. Not one. Not two.”
Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century
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