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Most of us are seeking permanency in some form or another, certainty in so many different ways.

Most of us are seeking permanency in some form or another, certainty in so many different ways.

From Public Discussion 8, Saanen, 11 August 1964

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Most of us are seeking permanency in some form or another, certainty in so many different ways. Not having found it, we ultimately turn to what man calls God. God is an idea; man has invented this, and there is satisfaction in the experience of an idea. All organised religions are structured on man’s thought. To find out for oneself, to see the origin of discontent and be finished with it completely, doesn’t mean that one becomes contented. A thing that is tremendously alive is neither content nor discontent, it is simply alive. And to proceed, never having a resting place, never being caught in experience, it seems to me only such a mind can find out or be in that state which is beyond the limits of time and thought. Then there is communion, a state of mind that is truly religious.

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