How to Make Friends with God
by Dr. Frederick Lenz, RamaInsight
“The one thing that you can give God that will truly impress God is friendship. God is an eternal companion, who is always with us all the time — never judges, just is. God is is-ness. People like gods and goddesses, male deities, female deities, but they miss God. God’s not into sex. God’s into eternity — timeless eternity, beyond the dream of this life.”
Considerations
“Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity. You can only want that which is absolutely good. You have to live in goodness all the time, and nothing else can matter. It’s only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God. If you feel that you trust God and that God has put you in exactly the place you should be with exactly the experiences you should have – that’s what we call purity. You must have that acceptance.
It’s only when you accept not only in success but in so-called failure, not only in health, but an ill-health and pain completely that it’s exactly correct, that God is doing everything perfectly. Only then can you be a real friend of God’s.”
These are direct quotes from the talk How to Make Friends with God by Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz.
All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism