The ultimate is not an idea. It cannot be known, in the usual way. It can, sometimes, be felt. There is a physical sensation that corresponds to boundary-less-ness. A kind of glowy, floatiness, a feeling of permeability and connectedness. Presence. It’s not conceptual, and it’s not an understanding that can be attained through any kind of effort. It is easiest to experience when effort and ideas are relinquished. If we want to see God, we must stop. Notice what we are really doing, and stop. We put an incredible amount of thought and energy and effort into building belief systems that obscure the truth. Every religion and ideology in the world is an example of this, but I’m not just talking about formal belief systems, it’s all the idiosyncratic beliefs we might not even realize we’ve bought into… we spend our lives cultivating complex sets of ideas about who we are, what the world is like, what is and is not possible for us, etc. These are the basic concepts that need to be doubted. Don’t buy it anymore! Allow for that most radical of possibilities: that you are not your self-concept! We do not reach infinity by addition, but by subtraction. Making space for grace…