When Saint Francis of Assisi was talking to the birds and giving a sermon
to them, people asked him, “What are you doing?” He said, “Well, I am talking to
the birds so that they progress on the spiritual path.” They said, “This man is
crazy.” Then there was another great Saint who used to go and sit near the trees
and talk to them. He would say, “Look, you are eventually going to be like
this,...like this.” See, he was talking to them.
These great Saints were imagining and realizing that God is in everything,
that He is aware in everything. The chair you are sitting on now is aware of
what you are. Your clothes are aware because God is there also. Can you tell me
where God is not? You cannot. That is the mystery.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Stories, p.38
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