MovieNight: Conversations with God

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I’m always excited when new movies show up in the mail box, and this week was no exception.  I love how movies can change my perspective and open new thoughts in my mind.

Conversations with God was the movie I watched this weekend.

I’m not religiously inclined right now in my life and I was a little skeptical about this movie at first.  I added it to my Netflix list on a recomendation from a friend.  It stayed on my coffee table for at least a week while movies like Fool’s Gold and re-runs of “Gone in 60 seconds” had the privilege to grace my TV screen.  It was Friday night and my girlfriend and I had just finished a long day of work and decided to make it a movie night.

We looked at each other and thought, we might as well watch it, since we did rent it.

So we put it in.

From the beginning I was still a little skeptical that this was going to be a theological tool that tried to influence people’s religious opinions.

Not so much.  This movie was about how important love is and who God is to each person. It is NOT a movie about Religion.  In my life there is a very real distinction.

I won’t try to summarize this movie’s philosophy and pass it off as my own, but I will say that I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to change their perspective on life.

There were parts where I couldn’t fight back the tears, of both joy and sadness and after watching this movie I am definitely going to read the books.   If you try and understand the real points the author is trying to make I think this Book/Movie can really do everyone some good.  If you don’t agree with the religious stance, overlook that part and take away from it the broader message.

Love is Life, and if you fill your life with love you will be happy and live a fulfilled life.

Here is the Wiki page describing the theories.

QUOTE:
In Friendship with God (page 373), “God” presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

1. We are all One.
2. There’s Enough.
3. There’s Nothing We Have [an obligation] to Do.
4. Ours Is Not A Better Way, Ours Is Merely Another Way.

The first statement is understood to mean that existence is essentially nondual
in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything
and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God.

The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this
seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have
enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within
us.

The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God,
being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no
need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity.

The
final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we
have and are everything, and there’s nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far.

udothedishes…..