“God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to play with…He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening.
When God plays “hide” and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself!
But that’s the whole fun of it—just what He wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find Himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be Himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever…
You may ask why God sometimes hides in the form of horrible people or pretends to be people who suffer great disease and pain.
Remember, first, that He isn’t really doing this to anyone but Himself. Remember, too, that in almost all the stories you enjoy there have to be bad people as well as good people, for the thrill of the tale is to find out how the good people will get the better of the bad.
It’s the same as when we play cards. At the beginning of the game we shuffle them all into a mess, which is like the bad things in the world, but the point of the game is to put the mess into good order and the one who does it the best is the winner. Then we shuffle the cards once more and play again, and so it goes with the world….”
—Alan Watts, The Book
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts?
Anyone?
How about you, God?