The Experience of God

“The divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches,” announced Thomas Aquinas in the philosophical argot of his time. And he drew the personal consequences: “He knows God best who acknowledges that whatever he thinks or says falls short of what God really is”

precisely because we think our lives, think our spirituality, think about God, we end up perceiving God as some “thing” over there, some cause among many other causes of things.

Myth, then, is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: “Where did the world come from?” “Why did God make the world?” “Where was I before I was born?” “Where do people go when they die?” Again and again I have found that they seem to be satisfied with a si

… the foundations of every philosophical question: what is the important reality - the shape of the cosmos or the tangible facts of life on earth? And what is the relationship between them? In a world that is full both of stars and of unsuspected pitfalls, which is the reality to which we should attend? What is it to understand Being? To think only