The spiritual source

Alex Thomson asks: Christmas – with or without Christ?

'My aim is to offer love and understanding to people, no matter how different their views and life may seem...' | Photo: See-ming Lee / flickr CC.

After being told I had cancer, I became aware of God’s presence, and the realisation that the only separation between ‘me’ and God is created by my belief in being separate! Coming back into the ‘real’ world, I did not want to leave behind this awareness of God’s presence. But living in a world of separation I exist as an individual, with billions of other individuals, where there is an increasing movement towards individualism. The collective belief in being separate individuals is causing so much suffering, I wonder if this is a world I want to live in.

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