"If we are seeking God merely because we are tired of this world and it's miseries, then it is an escape. Then we create God, and therefore it is not God. The God of the temples, of the books, is not God; obviously, it is a marvelous escape. But if we try to find the truth, not in one exclusive set of actions, but in all our actions, ideas, and relationships, if we seek the right evaluation of food, clothing, and shelter, then because our minds are capable of clarity and understanding, when we seek reality, we shall find it...So God, truth, or reality, is not to be known by a mind that is confused, conditioned, limited. How can such a mind think of reality or God?
So the task of disentangling the mind from all the values it has created is an extremely arduous one, and because our minds are weary, or we are lazy, we prefer to read religious books and speculate about God; but that, surely, is not the discovery of reality. Realizing is experiencing, not imitating."
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