Several years ago during meditation as guided by Nisargadatta Maharaj I encountered a place he called the Absolute and the sense of I am where I could feel love, God, eternity and tremendous power. Through my meditation I realized that was part of me and later in my work with recovering heroine addicts, I realized that it was part of all of us. I came to know that part of myself as my God or love seed, the origin of my “small quiet voice”. Later in my life (2006) during my near-death-experience I realized it was the same feeling/presence I call God. As I said in my last entry, that feeling changes my behavior dramatically. We all have that capability and feeling inside us and we are not simply “sinful and broken”