It's Really Not As Complicated As You're Making It Out To Be

"I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is

ever-changing, ever-dying there is, underlying all that

change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all

together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates. That

informing power or spirit is God, and since nothing else

that I see merely through the senses can or will persist,

He alone is. And is this power benevolent or malevolent?

I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see, that in the

midst of death, Life persists, in the midst of untruth,

Truth persists, in the midst of darkness, Light persists.

Hence I gather, that God is Life, Truth, Light, He is

Love. He is the supreme good. But He is no god who merely

satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. God to be God

must rule the heart and transform it. He must express

Himself in every smallest act of His votary. It is proved

not by extraneous evidence, but in the transformed

conduct and character of those who have felt the real

presence of God within. To reject this evidence is to

deny oneself. This realization is preceded by an

immovable faith. He who would, in his own person, test

the fact of God’s presence can do so by a living faith,

and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous

evidence, the safest course is to believe in… the law of

Truth and Love. Exercise of faith will be the safest

where there is a clear determination summarily to reject

all that is contrary to Truth and Love. I confess that I

have no argument to convince through reason, faith

transcends reason. All that I can advise is not to

attempt the impossible." –Mahatma Gandhi