Novalis
wrote: Das sind glückliche Leute, die
überall Gott vernehmen, überall Gott finden, diese Leute sind eigentlich
religiös. (These are happy people
who hear God everywhere, find God everywhere; these are actually religious
people.) To find God in all persons, all
things, all circumstances of life, in an unending dialog of love. Wer
Gott einmal suchen will, der findet ihn überall. (Whoever wants to seek God, finds him
everywhere.)
Once,
in a dream, I was walking toward the door of a house that I had never visited
before, across a red stone yard, and I was suddenly filled with an overwhelming
desire to have nothing in me but God, to finally be rid of everything that
wasn’t God. The dream stayed in my
memory as a great inspiration, a great hope, and a great reminder of my deepest
desire. Novalis also said: Glauben ist Empfindung des Erwachens und
Wirkens und Sinnens in einer andern Welt.
(Faith is the sensation of awakening and working and being in another
world.) Not just looking at this world differently—but being in
another world.
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