Many people think of God as a single being, often as an old mature man. But if we believe as Bible says:

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26-27

then we can see the logic why God also have to be male AND female figure. Simply because we, people, have this in our nature, so it supposed to be in God’s nature since he created us in His (or Her) image.

There was an episode in the “Legend of the Seeker” TV series, which portrays God (the Creator) as a woman. It may be an unusual thought for some, but please pray about it and you may see a point that God is not a single being, God is our Parents – Father and Mother, our Heavenly Family.

Let me ask you a few questions. Do you believe that God has all the answers on all those eternal questions about happiness, purpose of life, life after death, and so on as well as on all the questions of modern scientists? Do you believe that God is our Parent? Parents naturally teach their children about everything they know. So, why then do we have to go and study in school and college, where they don’t even know all the answers? Can’t we just learn directly from God, our Parent?

Truth is, we got disconnected from God sometimes in the beginning of human history. That’s explains why humankind has a history of ignorance, promiscuity, violence and suffering. It is like learning without true parental advise and guidance.  We have a long history of learning everything through human trial-and-error experience, without being able to listen to God. Apparently, such learning is not very effective either. It does not remains for long in the memory of generations. Many of the same mistakes were repeated again and again by every generation.

What would be the alternative way of learning about everything? It is learning together with our Parent God. How to do that? We need to re-connect our mind and spirit with God, so we can be guided by God in our daily lives. It will not be a quick and easy process, much like learning to walk for a baby. We have to expect a period of difficulties of understanding and accepting things. But through our experience of conversations with God in prayer and meditation, and practice of guidance we received from God in our actions, everything will become clear and all puzzle pieces will come together. We would not need to believe in God in order to live graceful life. Our experiences with God will turn us from the one who believes into the one who knows God. The one who can directly connect and learn from God.

What is the steps to re-connection, to becoming One with God? It is a process called restoration or re-creation. We have to apply here the same Principles that God used to “create” us. What are those Principles or should we say Laws? They are the ones that Jesus mentioned, Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself [Matthew 22:36-40]. This passage refers to two major Principles of Creation – 1) Living for Greater Good (God) and 2) Living for the sake of other people and yourself.

How to practice Love for God? By living for Greater Good, for the whole purpose of the universe and human society. What is this purpose? It is peace, mutual prosperity and advancement of talents and virtues. So, how do we live this way? By becoming a leader and owner of common Greater Good vision. By taking responsibility to better any field of human endeavor which we feel partial about, which we have interest in. Not only field of entertainment and hobby, but, most importantly, field of politics, economy, social relationship, international diplomacy and so on. These are the fields that urgently awaiting leaders with desire to live for Greater Good and apply Principles of True Love.

How to practice Love for neighbors and yourself? By living for the sake of others, helping first, giving unconditionally. When we give sincerely, from heart – the greater happiness will come to us and sooth our heart, the people we helped will follow us, become our friends and support us as well.

However, we shouldn’t forget loving ourselves, respecting who we are, pursuing our personal dreams, developing virtues and talents in order to mature physically and spiritually. Because it is a foundation for us to love others. Who wants to be loved by someone with low self esteem, by someone who cannot even take care of himself or herself? Such people cannot love unconditionally, from heart. Deep inside they want others to take care of them and make them feel good. Therefore they show love in order to get what they want. Please don’t misunderstand this point, I am not talking about person’s external actions we can see, but about internal motivation we often don’t see.

I hope you got a picture of what it means to become One with God. It is not a lonely journey of a saint in the mountainous wilderness, but a tightly-scheduled lifestyle of a leader with Great Vision and strong Desire. Are you ready to become such leader? You may not know that you are, just like Neo.

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Purpose of life is one of the central universal questions most people ask at some point of their adolescence. “Why am I living, what’s the point to study and train yourself, strive for goodness and refrain from evil desires?” This is not an easy question to answer, because the answer can be obtained only through personal contemplation and experience of reality.

Many world figures testified of universal love, that penetrates barriers of nation, race and even religion. True saints, sages and people of moral character to some extend loved everyone without distinction of social hierarchy, beliefs and traditions. Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Confusions, Buddha, Socrates, and others. They were delighted in the well-being of others and selflessly worked for others’ benefit even to the point of risking their own life.

Such love or compassion is called True Love, since it is given unconditionally. It is based in Ultimate Reality of God who loves everyone simply because we are God’s children and he is our Parent. Does parents love only obedient children and hate disobedient? Real parent cares for both, and often gives even more attention and love to the problem child.

True love can move anyone to rise above self-centered attachments and desires. It changes our perspective of life and shifts our focus to the welfare of the other. It is love that is universal, overcoming the ordinary tendency to focus only on your own desires and objectives or to favor your own group.

The ideal of true love is rare in the world. Such love requires the foundation of integrity, truthfulness, and unity with the Absolute (God). That’s what Jesus meant by saying “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.”

Why true love is so desirable? Because it brings true purpose to life. Without experiencing such love, people can never find their true purpose, true dreams and aspirations that can rise them above daily mundane routine and lead them through eternity.

If you are looking for the purpose of Your life, know that the key to finding the answer is in true love, in living for the sake of others. Even when you don’t feel great, making someone happy brings you fresh and awesome feelings, ignites a flame of desire to live and to be active, and feeds your imagination with new ideas. That’s the real secret to happiness – make others happy and you will find a deeper perspective of You life and eventually see it’s Purpose.

Quotes:

A man is a true Muslim when no other Muslim has to fear anything from either his tongue or his hand. Islam. Hadith of Bukhari

To the addict, nothing is like his dope; to the fish, nothing is like water: But those immersed in the love of God, feel love for all creation. Sikhism. Adi Granth, Wadhans, M.1, p. 557

Only a Good Man knows how to like people, knows how to dislike them, Confucius said, “He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon Goodness will dislike no one.” Confucianism. Analects 4.3-4

Strong One, make me strong. May all beings look on me with the eye of friend! May I look on all beings with the eye of friend! May we look on one another with the eye of friend! Hinduism. Yajur Veda 36.18

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Christianity. Bible, 1 Corinthians 13

Matthew 5:43-48: 43“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[b] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Leviticus 19:18: 18 ” ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

In the ancient times every nation had it’s own God or gods. People believed that there is a god for every nation. This kind of understanding has been a ground for the law of loving own people or neighbors (people of your nation who have the same god as you do) and hating enemies (people of other nations who have other gods, that you don’t believe in).

What was so special about Jesus’ teaching about loving your enemy, is that Jesus introduces an idea of one God for every nation and race. Because we are all the sons and daughters of the one Heavenly Parent, we have to treat each other as own people and neighbors even if we have a different skin color or different language. That was a totally new concept two thousands years ago.

What about now? Do we still believe that there is a god for every nation and every church? Do we understand that there is only one God – Heavenly Parent of every human being living on Earth and in the Spirit World?

When we have the understanding that our Heavenly Parent is the parent of people of the other nations and other churches, then we cannot see them as enemies any more. Even if they are negative and violent towards us, they are still our brothers and sisters who need our help, love and support.

Do you know who feels most miserable in the family if child is unhappy or hurt and crying? It is her father and mother. When people are fighting the most miserable is God. If you love God, you have to love your “enemies”, forgive them and give them another chance to live in peace and happiness with you.

That is why Jesus asked us to love enemies. Because he knew what’s in God’s heart. How much misery and pain God feels seeing people constantly fighting. Jesus loved God so much, that he wanted us too to relief God’s pain and misery. That requires loving our enemies, seeing in them our brothers and sisters, becoming one family under God.

Some people may wonder what is the point in praying to God. Do you pray just to ask for things and for something to happen or not? Since God is our heavenly parent, prayer is an act of intimate relationship with Him.

The word intimacy means different things to different people. In true sense, intimacy involves sharing deepest thoughts, fears, hopes and dreams. Willingness to share these with God is at the heart of prayer.

However, intimacy in prayer is a two ways communication: revealing yourself and receiving God’s revelation. When you fully open yourself to God, God opens Himself to you.  This is how God revealed Himself to founders of religion, prophets, saints, and writers of holy scriptures.

You can experience God in your life and receive His revelations if you open yourself to Him in prayer. In intimate sharing, asking questions and listening for answers…