You’re Not Driving

Penumbra said to Shadow:
‘When the Tao moves, you move;
when it stops, you stop.

Don’t you find it depressing
to have no power of your own?’

Shadow said,
‘On the contrary.
With no decisions to make,
my mind is always at ease.

‘All I have to do is follow.

‘You can’t imagine
how much freedom there is
in just going along for the ride.’

— Stephen Mitchell,
The Second Book of the Tao

[God] performeth the thing that is appointed for me.

— Job 23:14

Yatinam Brahma bhavati sarathi.

On this level [we become
consciously aware that]
Brahman Bhavati, the Creator,
[is] the charioteer
of our action,
the conductor
of the physical chariot, the body...

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Press Conference December 14, 2005
Vedic Cognition
of the Mechanics of Creation

Let us cease thinking of ourselves
as just the mere reflection
or shining forth of God.

We are more than reflection. 

We are what God is; 
we are God's 'isness;' 
we are God's being; 
we are God's omnipresence, 
His omnipotence, 
His omniscience.

We are divine Mind’s idea
of Itself.

The infinite Wisdom, Intelligence,
Truth and Life that is God
is the same infinite Wisdom,
Intelligence, Truth, and Life
that is the substance
and conscious essence
of Mind’s manifestation... 

— Martha Wilcox
Association Address 1943