Bruce, you might prefer the analogy of river (for God or Life)
Imagine you’re swimming in a river. The current is far stronger than you thought, pulling you downstream toward the ocean.
Some swimmers realize immediately: I can’t win this battle. They stop thrashing, turn onto their backs, and let the current carry them. The water supports them. They breathe, float, and relatively quickly reach the ocean, vast, limitless, peaceful.
Others fight. They swim furiously upstream, exhausting themselves, swallowing water, going under repeatedly. Eventually their muscles give out. Only then, depleted and desperate, do they finally stop resisting. The current carries them to the same ocean the others reached long ago.
Bruce, you might prefer the analogy of river (for God or Life)
Imagine you’re swimming in a river. The current is far stronger than you thought, pulling you downstream toward the ocean.
Some swimmers realize immediately: I can’t win this battle. They stop thrashing, turn onto their backs, and let the current carry them. The water supports them. They breathe, float, and relatively quickly reach the ocean, vast, limitless, peaceful.
Others fight. They swim furiously upstream, exhausting themselves, swallowing water, going under repeatedly. Eventually their muscles give out. Only then, depleted and desperate, do they finally stop resisting. The current carries them to the same ocean the others reached long ago.
Much better analogy; eliminates the arcane idea of a vengeful, paternalistic God.
Bruce, it's our ego or mind that doesn't want surrender. God, our inner Being, is all-loving. Its nature is love, joy, and peace.
True.