The search for god goes by many other names. Few of us are seeking an ethereal figure, donning white billowy linen and sporting impressively long hair (which may inadvertently turn out to be Alanis Morrisette) What links us irrefutably as human beings is the probing of our state of existence. How did we get here? Why do we exist? Is there a deeper explanation to life beyond what we can see? Does some supreme force oversee us and if so, in what form? The search for god is all this and more; the search for answers, for meaning, for understanding of our universe. As Gandhi once said: ‘I claim to be a passionate seeker after truth, which is but another name for God.’
Despite the unanswerable nature of our questions, we continue to ask them. And yet to be alive and not to question seems the stranger concept. These are the greatest uncertainties we shall ever face, the conundrums for which no-0ne has a definitive answer, yet they are so inherent to the human condition itself we carry them tolerantly, often quietly and sometimes indifferently through the prosaic jungle of everyday life, some struggling more than others to compensate the vastness of our uncertainties with the necessities of routine and the personal. Read the rest of this entry »
