The Old Man and the Sea
Today I'll be heading back to our municipal library, the third largest public library in the Chicago area. I'm returning a copy of The Old Man and the Sea. It was the first work by Ernest Hemingway I read. It was really incredible and stimulating. The language is easy and simple, but the effect is really deep and insightful into existence and Nature. I finished the book feeling more full of faith and appreciative of the beauty of rough-hewn souls. One learns a lot about perseverance and faithfulness, as well as the mystery of Nature. Today's Daily Word spoke about faith. The central thing Jesus taught about was having faith. Not having correct beliefs, but having the optimistic impulse to reach out for what we need or desire. Jesus avoided worship and adoration by the crowds, and when an individual was healed, he told him, "Your faith has healed you," and "Tell no one who has done this for you!" If we walk the path of Jesus, we rise in consciousness and pull others to rise in faith and step out and receive healing. If they refuse our help, we shake the dust off our sandals and go to those who wish healing.
I got further with "God, the Immanent and Transcendent" by Dr. David Hawkins. I finished the first disc, almost 1.5 hours. One thing I got was the error of historicising of the holy. What this means is that the holy God is ever present and ever creating, and inspiring and renewing. We do great harm to ascribe the holy to places and times far removed form the present moment. We form idols of divine manifestations we can't reach or we no longer see, while we don't see the divinity with us and within us. The holy is here and now and in the mundane task. Why not adore the immanent presence more than the special thing in history. By no means do I denigrate the study of history or linear education, but the Now is holy! God with us and within us is most important. Linear cause and effect thinking is error, but karma makes probabilities and manifestations happen according to unseen attractor fields. The philosophy of David Hawkins is really deep. The God of the present is more than the God of the past. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!