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I feel my egoism and rationality in its death throes. Â It makes no sense to me. Â But my heart says this is it. Â I will continue to highly regard my spiritual development. Â To endeavor to fake it until I make it.
Thank you, thinking about our physical functions in relation to our rational functions in relation to our spiritual functions helps me perceive the paradox better!
…There is none else besides him. Prayer is an effort made by an individual, particularly in the heart to perceive the creator and implore him to grant the individual confidence and the possibility of attaining spiritual life. That prayer opens the point in our heart to the spiritual world, where a single beam of spiritual light reaches our souls and grows into full-blown spirituality. we are utterly in capable of doing this on our own, and thus it is the creator who reforms us and reforms our egoistic substance into an altruistic nature.
There is none else besides him. What I don’t understand is who are we then? from this lesson, it states that our attitude towards the creator is the only thing that we can change.  It sounds like that is something else besides the creator? When I look at the natural world, I realize that all the animals, trees, and inanimate objects fall into line with the thought of creation. It is only our ego that goes against the grain.  I look at a lot of people who are not on this pathway and they will never enter this pathway. Do they have some quality that is besides him? My intuition says that your answer will say that it is only an illusion that we are separate from God, but if so, is that illusion in itself besides him?  Your answer will be that God placed this illusion into us so that we can rest next to him as the ultimate perfected piece of his creation if we so choose. but it still seems paradoxical to me.
The last course helped me to start thinking with my heart instead of my head. Â The methodology is helping me shut my eyes of rationalism and open my eyes of faith. Â I can sense my ego in its death throes as I exit Egypt and the Amelek has been placed at almost every exit point. Â Pg 137, attaining the worlds beyond. Â I feel it and it makes me want it more.
