I think the point is that there is a logical and reasonable path to realizing relationship with God. Until we do, our bliss is limited and our experience sub-optimal. I will explain.
Every memory we develop is emotion tied with an event. If the emotion is positive, the memory is like a jewel in our life experience. The more positive the emotion, the more treasured the jewel. To live the optimal life then, is to embrace joy and happiness in all we think, say, and do.
Love is the core of all positive emotion. On any choice, ask yourself why you care. Then realize that caring is love. You have identified the connection between your actions and the love that drives them.
The more wholly we love, the more of our memories are positive and the happier we are. When we think of the world as containing goodness and evil, and oppose that we judge to be evil, we limit our expression of love and thus detract from the wholesomeness of our life experience. When we see that the entire world is good in varying degrees, we appreciate that goodness and are not limited in where we express love. The divine experience, whether we call it satori, nirvana, being touched by God or something else, is a result of creating limitless love within and expressing it indiscriminately. We have to understand love and virtue well to do this, embracing them as the core of our being. We can do this; it is the path taught by the mystics of old.
Consider now, that we suffer every negative emotion and enjoy all positive ones. They are the treasures we collect in life; they are also our guideposts leading us to be our greatest selves.
We tend to think of so much of life in diametric terms, when in fact it's a matter of degree. When the love expressed in an experience is below your normal, you suffer. When the expression is above your normal, you delight. That which we suffer is a very low vibration of love and rightness, while the divine is the high expression.
The common approach to life is to align with aspects of reality and to oppose others. This will always introduce suffering. God is All That Is, and so All That Is is divine. We can't align with some of God and not all of God. When we see the divine in All That Is, and strive to increase its expression, we are more fully aligned and we know bliss.
Nothing is ever made whole by subtracting energy. When we have negative feelings, what we are feeling is our life force being siphoned off. This is a sign to say that something's off track. Usually, the issue is that virtue and rightness are being compromised. All of humanity's wrongdoings are because we believe in evil and try to align in goodness, opposing instead of redivining that which is in need of healing. Every force against us is either fear or love's absence. They are in need of divine energy. Providing aggression or fostering fear only takes energy from that which is already desperate. In other words, our misalignment with regard to that which we dislike causes suffering and greater desperation.
All of humanity can be blissful and happy, but we have to realize that all are divine and help them heal, instead of judging and harming. This is treating All That Is with respect and dignity. It's how we heal our society.
When we have relationship with All That Is, the ills of the world fall away. This is the societal version of healing. We align personally to redivine our lives, and collectively to redivine society.
Does that make definition more than semantics?
