seeker for truth

by way of recommending this book, here are my answers to some of the author's questions... if you want to read answers from the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Steven Levine and others... get the book! On what main beliefs do you base your life? The unity of truth, a progressivist understanding of life, and the value of compassion, humor, and joy. Do you believe in a God or Ultimate Reality? What is it like? I have had many diverse relationships with the word and concept of God. I am at a point now where I am quite comfortable with much God language, however, I am still quite skeptical of any God language that seems to be a projection of human qualities onto God. I think our biggest mistake in thinking about God is that we forget the unknowability and begin to imagine God as one of us, as a person, or a being, or finite, or conceptualizable. Our second most powerful error when dealing with divinity is our confusion between metaphorical and literal truth. Before science

My first thought was to kill it. My second thought was to catch it without hurting it and put it out of the house. My third thought was to reflect on the way that 'uninvited guests' (insects, geckos, etc.) increase the speed with which man made objects (like houses) decay. My fourth thought was about the impermanance of all things and the silliness of being worried about how fast one thinks one's house might be decaying. My fifth thought was that when my first reaction to seeing a gecko on the wall in the bathroom is to feel grateful and joyful that such a beautiful little creature is sharing my home... then, I will be where I want to be. I wonder what the gecko thought?