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Baby, My Whole Work Is to Confuse You!

I'm confused hearing you say there is no God.

There have been many beautiful moments in my life

when I feel something moving through me which I know is not me.

I used to call it God, now I call it godliness.

But I still don't like hearing that there is no God.

Can you ease my confusion?

Baby,

my whole work is to confuse you!

Unless you are utterly confused,

you are not going to drop your knowledgeability.

What do you mean

when you ask me to "ease your confusion"?

In other words, you want

certain,

settled

knowledgeability.

You want to convince yourself that you know it.

I

cannot commit that crime.

You do not know it.

So first I have to remove all your

knowledge

which is bogus anyway.

You have not earned it,

you don't deserve it.

It has not grown within you,

it is all

rubbish that you have collected from books,

from people.

I am going to confuse you more and more.

And look, what is your confusion?

You say

that there have been moments in your life

which you used to call

God

you cannot deceive me.

I know

you may have

experienced

a few beautiful moments;

everybody

experiences a few beautiful moments of well-being,

of

great uplift.

Seeing a sunset,

suddenly

you are silent.

Or listening

to the

tidal waves of the ocean

shattering

on the rocks

on the shore,

suddenly

you feel

almost a nobody

before this vast existence.

Looking

into the sky

and the stars

you may have

had

certain moments,

and you may have called them God.

Don't make God so cheap.

I am raising God Higher

than he has ever been.

The Jewish God says, "I am a jealous God.

I am a very angry God.

I am not

nice,

I am not your uncle."

Jesus

tried

to raise

the Jewish God,

and that was his crime.

He said,

"God is love."

Now, this is very contradictory.

The Jewish God says, "I am jealous,

I am angry, I am not nice,"

and

Jesus makes him a goody-goody:

"God is love."

This man Jesus should be removed

before he

destroys

their

certainty

that God is jealous, angry.

You have to be afraid of him,

because that will keep you on the right path.

If God is love,

then who bothers

what is right and what is wrong?

A loving God cannot punish you

in hell for eternity.

But Jesus

on the one hand says, "God is love,"

and on the other hand

he is a Jew after all

the eternal hell remains.

He cannot see a simple fact, that

if God is love

then eternal hell should be removed

because you need not be afraid of love.

Love gives you freedom to be yourself;

sandwiched between heaven and hell

you cannot have any freedom,

any individuality.

I am

trying to raise

God.

When I say there is no God,

I mean there is no

person

as God,

there is no personality as God.

You have to understand clearly

that personality is

something

false.

The word

personality comes from the Greek persona

persona means a mask;

in Greek drama

the actors used to have a mask.

You know sona means sound;

a sound coming through a mask

was called persona.

You cannot see who is behind

the mask;

hence the actor has a personality.

And if you all have personalities

you are all actors

you are not being

authentic,

sincerely

yourself.

Personality and individuality

don't mean the same thing.

I am taking the personality of God

away.

I don't want him to be

an actor

you have so many in Hollywood.

Strange, that the place is called "Hollywood"...

all gods,

personalities,

great personalities.

I don't want God to be a

Hollywood actor.

I am trying to destroy his mask,

and once the personality drops

what is left

is godliness.

That is

the true individuality of existence.

I will not say, "God is love,"

because that still keeps God as a person.

On the contrary, I say, "Love is God."

You can forget all about God.

If you can understand love,

that's enough religion;

more than that is not needed.

I use the word godliness

and you are confused,

because those moments...

have you seen anybody in those moments

that you can call God?

You have not seen anybody in those moments,

because there is nobody.

You were using a wrong word,

I am correcting you.

Those moments you can call moments of godliness.

I am

changing God from a quantity to a quality.

God is a quantity;

godliness is a quality.

And you are confused by it?

Just a hangover.

Shake yourself well

slap yourself and shake yourself

and all confusion will disappear.

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