God

Using the daily practices I outline in my book I have encountered a loving and powerful force that I call God. Having opened myself to that power, I now feel it and live within it all the time. I believe (know?) it is the Kingdom that Jesus spoke of. In the words of Pagels "Yet I sometimes encountered, in churches and elsewhere—in the presence of a venerable Buddhist monk, in the cantor’s singing at a bar mitzvah, and on mountain hikes—something compelling, powerful, even terrifying that I could not ignore, and I had come to see that, besides belief, [any spiritual path] Christianity involves practice—and paths toward transformation."