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You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.