I see my soul, my essence, as grounded in oneness with one thing bigger than myself. I most frequently name that “one thing larger” God or the Divine. But there’s a complete vary of different phrases that match too—like Supply, Oneness, God, Allah, Nice Spirit, the Infinite Area, love or Love, common power, the next energy, the quantum discipline. The huge vary of spiritual and religious traditions internationally all have totally different names for this one thing larger, and every identify speaks to a selected understanding of it. (Should you discover discord with this final thought, lookup the time period non secular pluralism, one other eye-opening idea I realized about in graduate theology faculty.) Every of those phrases is likely to be correct, however every can also be restricted. It displays only one perspective, one facet, or one form of expertise of the larger one thing. The extra I stroll with people who find themselves exploring their religion, which means, and goal and desirous to really feel extra absolutely alive, the extra I believe our phrases can solely start to the touch on what that one thing larger is like. The entire of it’s in the end unnamable.
