METAMORPHOSIS

What is the distinction between having a relationship with God and simply focusing on the words of spiritual texts or a religious organization's doctrine of what God is to them? Huge distinction! 

A spiritual text shares the experience of others whereas a relationship offers you your own experience. See the difference? When  someone tells you about their amazing experience with a business leader or a church leader,  you may listen out of respect for your friendship or you may be moved to discover more.  The distinction between relationship and doctrine is listening to another's experience or having our own experience. What's real to us is our own experience because it touches the essence of God within us.

At the heart of our nature, we humans are narcissistic.  Our perspective of life is all about our survival. Until and unless we recognize that we have taken the difficult path to life instead of the easy route nothing changes - unless...