The Mistake

If you have read a fair number of spiritual books, you are familiar with discriminating language such as: true self and false self. You are not the body, such and such is an illusion, and all the rest. But the illusion is just one. The illusion is that there is anything here except the Self, or God, or the Mystery. That's the illusion. The illusion is that the in-dweller and all the diverse expressions are not the one Reality. They are. Truth, or Self, or God, or the Mystery alone is. That's all there ever is.

We THINK we live separately, apart from the ultimate reality, but the truth is, we don't. We THINK we live apart from God, and have to journey back to find God. We don't. God is journeying back to Himself. The universe is playing a game with itself called diversity. If we see only the differences, then we have missed it. If we try to overlook the differences, we have missed it. Both are mistakes of equal magnitude.

God isn't hidden. As one has said, "If you ask where is God? You have asked the wrong question. If you ask, "Where God is not? You have asked the right question, because the truth is -- God, or Truth, or Being, or Self is all there is.

Seen in this light, we see how ridiculous it is to seek God. God is obvious. We see how ridiculous it is to look past forms, or disregard appearances. God isn't hiding. Whoever said, God is hidden, didn't know God, except in theory, because God is all there is. The mistake is this belief that God is hidden. This belief alone robs one of Realization.