Those who study the 'holy' books of Buddhism, Islam or Christianity in order to find God's Truth are not likely to find what they are seeking: for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

You will not find God in the words of any book nor in the words of any teacher, no matter how eminent and God-realised the writer or speaker may be. All such men can do is point the way. You, and you alone must make the journey and find the God within. There is no other way!

We hear those who are unwilling to make such a journey putting their faith only in what they have read and, because second-hand beliefs are confessions of ignorance, mindlessly say, "But God said..." and quote chapter and verse of a 'holy' book that none of the founders of any of the world's great religions ever wrote; let alone God. Of course, the stock reply is to say that the teachings have been passed down orally until the authors wrote them down, or from the depths of our own unknowing, we claim that the authors were God-inspired.

All 'holy' books, the Upanishads, the Sutras, the Bible and the Koran all contain profound truths but only those of us who love God with our hearts, but not our minds, will claim our particular book is free from distortions of truth. So what are we going to do if we cannot find the Spirit of God in our books? Well, maybe Jesus of Nazareth was telling the truth when he said that the Spirit of God lives within us. Did he expect us to take his word for it and make no attempt to turn within and make connection with that spirit? What does he mean by seek and you shall find? How do we know he said any of that anyway? There is only one way of truly knowing, and that is the way of direct, personal experience.

God does, indeed, communicate with us through instinct and intuition as well as visions and dreams. If we would only take time out from talking to God in our prayers and start listening to God in our meditations. "But how do we know it's not the devil?" ask the spiritually moribund. The way you would judge anything: By its fruit. Unless your belief in fear is stronger than your belief in love. Only the deeply conditioned ignorant would believe that that which we call God did not speak to Muhammad or the Buddha. Both have their own names for the Universal Mind. One calls it 'Allah' and the other 'Dharmakaya' (the Source of all Being). So what? Who gives a hoot what labels man puts on the Creative Source. If we tried to love one another instead of fighting over divisive labels we could make that connection with the God within All.