{"id":169,"date":"2007-12-29T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/12\/can-we-be-happier-than-god.html"},"modified":"2007-12-29T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T06:27:50","slug":"can-we-be-happier-than-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/12\/can-we-be-happier-than-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Can we be happier than God?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Openings.<\/em>
\nThis week’s prose…the first in a series of excerpts from the newest CWG book, Happier Than God<\/em>, to be released in nine weeks by Hampton Roads Publishing Company.
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\nLife was meant to be happy.
\nDo you believe that?
\nIt\u2019s true. I know it doesn\u2019t seem like it when you look around, but it\u2019s true. Life was meant to be happy.
\nYou were meant to be happy. And if you are happy, you were meant to be happier. Even if you\u2019re very happy, you can be even happier.
\nHow happy? Just how happy can you be? Well\u2026you can be happier than God.<\/em>
\nI once heard a lady describing a gentleman who was very wealthy. She said, \u201cHe\u2019s got more money than God!\u201d That\u2019s how I mean this. I mean to use the ultimate superlative.
\nI also mean the words I have used literally. I mean just what the words say. Which brings up a lot of questions. Does this mean that God even experiences the thing called \u201chappiness\u201d? (Yes.) Does that mean that God experiences unhappiness? (No.) If we can be happier than God, does that mean that we are separate from God? (No.) Then how is this possible?
\nWell, as it happens there is a formula by which you can be happier than God. All mystics have known it, most teachers of mystical wisdom have known it, some contemporary spiritual messengers know it, but it\u2019s become, through the centuries, sort of a \u201cmystery formula\u201d\u2026because it\u2019s not talked about very much. Not very much at all.
\nWhy? Simple. Very few of the folks to whom spiritual teachers and messengers might be talking have been able to believe what the \u201cmystery formula\u201d is said to be able to produce. And when you talk about things that no one believes, you can become very unpopular.
\nSo even today, in what is supposed to be a time of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment, not many teachers and spiritual messengers reveal this formula, even if they know it. Or if they are talking about it, they are talking about only half of it. Most of them are keeping the other half, the most breathtaking part of this formula, under wraps. So what we have here is an amazing truth, but you don\u2019t know the half of it.
\nWhat good is a truth if it\u2019s not fully revealed? None at all, of course. In fact, only half a truth can be misleading. It can even be dangerous. So we\u2019re going to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth here. We\u2019ll start with a look at…<\/p>\n


\n…why you\u2019re holding this book, and when we finish, we\u2019ll have described an extraordinary mechanism.
\nOkay? Good. Here goes.
\nAsk yourself why you picked up this book.
\nNever mind. I\u2019ll tell you. You picked up this book on an impulse.
\nAnd where did that impulse come from?
\nYou. <\/em>It came from you<\/em>.
\nWhy? Why did the impulse originate in you? What caused that to happen? And from what part of you did it come?
\nThose answers take up much of this book\u2014and they\u2019re pretty darn exciting. But for now, let\u2019s move to an even larger question: How is it that this book just happened to be here\u2014right here, where you are, right now\u2014for you to even see, much less have an impulse about?
\nAh, yes, now that is the key question. If you knew the answer to that question you could change your whole life.
\nHere\u2019s the answer to that question. Get ready to change your whole life…
\n(This series of excerpts from Happier Than God<\/em> continues in this space next Saturday. The book is scheduled for release March 1 and may be pre-ordered today at www.Amazon.com)
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/em>
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\nWe say that we will have a Good Life.
\nThis is a guarantee
\nif We are kind
\nto one another.
\nIf We are patient.
\nIf, when I speak, you listen
\nand if when you speak, I hear you.
\nThis is assured,
\nif We continue to look
\nfor one another.
\nIf We want to find.
\nIf, when I am here, I am seen,
\nand if, when you are here, I see you.
\nWe say that this will be a Good Life.
\nThis is a guarantee
\nif We are Naked
\nwith one another.
\nIf We are clothesless.
\nIf, when I am vulnerable,
\nyou shelter,
\nand if, when you are defenseless,
\nI protect.
\n(If, We Are Naked – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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