That's the title of Deepak Chopra's bestselling book and the author himself assumes that God is.
In other words, the book is not like so many you'll find in bookstores today which are basically treatises on the existence of God.
Personally, I find it humorous when people write books that try to prove God exists.
You can no more prove God exists any more than you can prove God does not.
The whole debate is similar to the one about extraterrestrial life or UFO's, neither of which anyone has ever been able to prove or disprove.
I begin with the assumption that God exists - that there is intelligence within and beyond everything material.
So, my interest is in knowing how to know God, this intelligence whose presence I see everywhere.
For as long as the human family has existed, there's been an insatiable interest in knowing God.
Yet, with very few exceptions, most religions, Christianity included, seem to hinder as much as they help their constituents know God.
Part of the problem is that every religion presupposes its knowledge of God is more complete, and often more correct, than the knowledge others religions may have of God.
Furthermore, virtually every religion seems to suggest that, if you really wish to know God, you must subscribe to that religion's particular tenets and suppositions.
If this were not confusing enough, there are others, and their numbers seem only to be growing, who don't believe in God at all.
Yet, many of them speak of having had some kind of inexplicable, even transcendent and transformative experience, the consequence of which has left them radically better people, too.
For example, Andre' Comte-Sponville, the self-proclaimed French atheist, recently wrote a magnificent book about his inner transformation entitled The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality.
He likens his experience to a spiritual awakening.
So, what's the answer to all of this? How can any of us know God? And, is religion even necessary? 1.
To begin with, I would suggest you not concern yourself so much with which religion is right and instead recognize the spiritual truth inherent in all of them.
I suppose any religion path will bring you into a meaningful knowledge of God.
I, for one, grew up in a Christian home and became myself a Christian minister.
For years, I believed you could not know God apart from believing in the tenets of the Christian faith.
I no longer believe this way and in my book, The Enoch Factor, I describe in detail the life experiences that brought me to this conclusion.
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Next, I would suggest, if you wish to know God, you assume there is no "way" to know God.
Instead, God IS the way.
Although I grew up in a Christian home and attended one of the finest theological seminaries where I earned a doctorate in theology, it was not until much later in life that I realized there was nothing I could do to know God, I knew God already.
The same is true for you.
Most people spend their entire lives looking for God and the realization I had was that the search isn't necessary.
God wishes to be known.
I was the one who was making a struggle and effort out of what should have been natural and easy.
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Are you, as I was, the proverbial fish swimming in the ocean while looking for the sea? Then, know that you know God already.
Accept this.
This is what the Bible means by grace.
While many of us have grown up in religious traditions that leave us feeling as if we're not quite there yet, that there's something still missing, the real truth is, nothing is missing and there's nothing to do.
Just be.
It is by being that we find ourselves merged into Being itself.
In other words, there is nothing you need to do in order to know God.
You know God already.