The sense, the devotion of those whose devotion was so extreme, brings the energy of their devotion into your own inner experience, and you get what it is. You get what it is – the worship and the recognition and the acknowledgment of the sacredness of that which is Divine. That’s a road which anyone can take- the appreciation for beauty, um. A great aria in an opera can just wipe you out, you know.
…We experience the presence of God through love, through beauty, through that which is sacred. So we are worshipful when we respect the sacredness of all of life. We worship God when we turn the black beetle over from his back onto his tummy so he can walk away, instead of leaving him there with his legs wobbling in the air. Out of that act we worship God because it is God’s life, so long as it exists in this form, is sacred and we realize the sacredness. So, it’s an act of worship. All that we do that supports life is a recognition of the– a respect for the sacredness of life. And that’s really all that’s required.
From the November 2002 lecture, God: Transcendent and Immanent, Disk 2.
*This lecture is included in the 6th book of the Transcription Series of 2002, called, The Final Doorway.
