David Dickinson's Godblog

To love means to become one with the object of your love.

David Dickinson

I attended a funeral of a friend the other day, and the memorial card that was given out had the 23 rd Psalm inside the cover.
My mind locked on to the second statement, “I shall not want”.

In the context of this Psalm it is saying that there is no need to want for anything, that everything you need will be provided.
The key word here is ‘need’, not what we think of today as “want, (as in I want a Cadillac).

God knows our needs for our spiritual development much better than we do. He does not confuse our needs with the wants of our egos.

Acceptance is the answer.
David Dickinson

If you give of yourself out of love, then you will be loved. If you give of yourself in order to be loved, then you will be used.
David Dickinson

To be ‘born again’, as the term used in some Christian systems, means to give up all attitudes and all products of attitudes (like expectations) and become as devoid of these as a new born baby. When one gives up all attitudes one is totally dependent on God, as a baby is dependent on its parents.

The process of casting off old attitudes is not easy as they belong to the ego, and the ego does not wish to die.
David Dickinson

Humility is death for the ego, death of the ego is the birth of the real you.

David Dickinson

Nothing can exist except in relation to something else, except God.

David Dickinson

It is strange to me how some people use the word ‘reality’. The vast majority of people have no clue and actually don’t care, they rely on their five senses and let it go at that.

The five senses were designed to assist us in the physical world and they do a fine job of that. But, who says there is anything real about the physical world. It is only real in a certain context. In a different context it does not exist and neither do we.

I refer you to ‘Scientific American’, August 2003, cover story by Jacob D. Bekenstein , “Are You A Hologram?” Quantum physics says the entire universe might be.

This is just the tip of the iceberg as to the information now available, and more is happening everyday in the best scientific studies.

The point being people do not want to think about stuff like this, ignorance is bliss, and that is alright, every one must evolve at their own rate.

David Dickinson

If as in physics , energy only flows (freely) from higher to lower , where does the higher get its energy ? Perhaps it is ourselves who do this . Perhaps that is why we exist , to turn the lower negative energy into higher positive energy . If energy only flows from the higher to the lower , than God is the source of all energy , and when it gets down to our level it is up to us through conscious efforts to raise the quality of energy to a level God can use. David Dickinson