Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Explaining God to a 7-year-old

19 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Vishen Lakhiani, Aug 19, 2022) in which the speaker explains "God" for a young child. The speaker rejects a human-like, superman-in-the-sky image and instead defines God as the presence of intelligence, love, beauty, and life itself; each person is described as an expression of that infinite presence.

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What is God? Then? If a 7, if an 8 year old had to say, what is God? I would say, God is our life and beyond. Most people do make up a God, and they make up a God in a human image. And so people then have to unlearn that and come to an understanding that when we say the word God, we're not speaking of a superman in the sky. We're speaking of a presence of intelligence and love and beauty. Life is God, life is self. And each of us are expressions of life. Therefore, each of us are expressions of infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite abundance, personified as us. So that which is within us as life is the same presence that's all around us as life. So I describe God as a presence that's never an absence.