you are looking for god * ● *
One day, a young boy arrived in front of an old man's cave
hermit and asked him to teach him how to find God.
Lermite agreed, but to all the questions that
The boy gave only a few brief answers and
very simple exercises that did not satisfy him. Yet,
in the afternoon it was hot and they were walking along the edge
by a river, Let us stop to drink, said the hermit, and
when they lay down to drink water from their
hands, suddenly, he seized the boy's head and plunged it under
the water in which he held it for a few seconds, then the
released. Catching his breath, the boy, stunned, looked
Lermitte, who asked him: What were you thinking about while you
Did you have your head underwater? In the air. I wanted
Breathe. Very good. So, know that if you want to find God,
That is how you must think of Him.
And I tell you the same: when you pray, think of
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with nothing else,
like the one who, with his head underwater, desires only one
choice: to breathe.
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Marylena