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Originally Posted by brag

The God we speak of must be found in human behaviors, leading up to the highest of human yearnings, that of personal and professional development for facing the challenges of life. These are the two most important psychological institutions that bring about human transformation in preparation for daily living, where battles and confrontations with life are fought each day.

The pressures we often describe as exhaustion, wear and tear, burn out, stress, irritability, etc., make us mentally, physically and spiritually ill, and we are left without patience. We often take care of our cars and other material toys better than we take care of our emotional toys, not learning how to control and keep them fit for our own health and wealth, and the perfect emotional balance needed for the journey of patience ahead.

Patience, as a force within, keeps the battles of life in check. Only patience as a virtue and a discipline allows intelligence to grow, and rise above emotions. It keeps emotions where they belong, in the background of our intelligence, not in the foreground where intelligence belongs. We may feel compassion for a man pretending to be hungry, but we must use intelligence not to bring him inside the home always to feed him when he may have something else in mind.

It is from the two primary psychological institutions of personal and professional human growth and development that we learn most of our human values, and from where we learn to bring out from within our best qualities that manifest as compassion, love, kindness, selfless service, etc. They lie within, just waiting to be tapped for manifesting as selfless service on a daily basis, because they are the true qualities of human beings.

We learn to give more than what we receive, as we tap the higher qualities within. It is from within we learn to give up lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride, hate, jealousy, back biting, negativity, and all the other internal enemies of the gross human spirit that poses the greatest threat to mankind. We burn these emotions in the fires of our sacrifices and disciplines.

Man's enemies are not always on the outside, but often from within. They sap our energies and become our worst enemies as human diseases. We often see them in others first, as we train our eyes only to look on the outside. We see them in others, and we readily believe we have no connection to them, so we take liberties in speaking negatively about others, as if others are not our constant mirrors, reflecting back to us who we really are. But we miss the opportunities others provide to us for looking at ourselves, and we make no decisions about what to do when the outside only resonates with what is inside of us, and the call for self examination.

We spend much of our time restricting the concept of God to only a man in Heaven, as we try to reach Him there. We believe that God is only on the outside, as a person, and we have to prepare for this onward march on the outside, instead of on the inside. We limit the concept of God and box God outside of human personal and professional growth and development, and we miss the point of our lives by missing opportunities to develop personally and professionally for the higher good and service to mankind.

We lose the full meaning of doing to others as we would have them do unto us. We never remember to stand in another's shoes to feel what it feels like to be another person. We complain of not having shoes when others do not even have feet. We miss the point of religion and spirituality as a discipline, and we run to those that offer quick fixes in Sunday services. We go on searching for a God we will never understand, and neglect the force within which we can readily learn to understand. We learn about all others by self examination, and personal and professional development that must begin as the God seated in man's heart as a condition that prompts man to live a life of higher qualities. The key is in learning to give more than we receive.

Many ask if I am a priest, and the answer is an obvious no, as in all of my studies and sharing of them, the appeal is to human growth and personal development as a science of human behavior. Personal growth and professional development can be as equally enriching as all religious philosophies combined, and without the doubts and issues surrounding the concept of God that often detract from any course in the personal and professional development that can be found in religious philosophies, as well. Science will one day prove the existence of God, but many will still continue to doubt.