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The word “God” is like a stick of dynamite. It remains valuable precisely because its utterance sets off such potent cultural and conceptual reverberations. Whitehead, in his own way, used it to name something at once tender and cosmic, intangible yet inescapable, the poet of the world who does not create the world from nothing but helps us make... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
Who wrestles with the angel? Jacob. And the word Jacob, by definition, means the supplanter. You would like to transform yourself and become that which reason and your senses deny. As you wrestle with your ideal, trying to feel that you are it, this is what happens. When you actually feel that you are it, something goes out of you. You may use the
... See moreNeville Goddard • The Neville Goddard Deluxe Collection
Yet it is precisely in this moment that God identifies not as something formidable, and not even as a thing at all, but rather as a process — intangible, undefinable, and ever-changing.