The experiences of devotion to God, relationship to God, union with God, connection with God, being part of God, being cells in the body of God, being God—all appear on various paths. But they all retain the sense of the presence of the self. When the self goes, there is only the seeing of God. You don’t even feel “I am being God” because there is no “I.” If you say, “I am experiencing God,” there are two, not one. If you say, “I love God,” there are you and God. When there is God, there is no one there who loves God; there is just God. There is the seeing of God and that’s it. You don’t feel that you are seeing God, that you are relating to God, that you are God; you don’t feel anything that has an “I” in it. You don’t feel anything. There is just the seeing of God, and God is all and everything. All that you can see and cannot see. – Diamond Heart Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery, ch. 1
We say that God, or the Truth, never changes and is always the same, while in fact, God is changing all the time since God is everything that we see. So which perception is the truth? Both are true, and this is something that we can’t really understand. When we face this mystery, the mind has reached its limit and has to give up. Conceptual elucidation can only go so far, and ultimately, we end up facing paradoxes. While the threads no longer conceptually fit here, experientially, it makes total sense. Just as the atoms in the body are always atoms and always stay the same while the body is constantly changing, the Absolute is always unchanging, while there is always the arising of manifestation out of it. Seeing that these two phenomena happen simultaneously is seeing Holy Origin. You are looking at two faces of the same thing. If you see two separate processes, you are seeing a disconnection which is the absence of Holy Origin. – Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, ch.16
True nature is not like the unknown or the unknowable God of the monotheistic traditions. It’s more like the God that knows that it doesn’t know itself completely, is always illuminations of awakening in the process of knowing itself, is delighting in knowing itself, and is happy that it doesn’t know itself completely. The mind wants closure; it wants to know. But the mind, when it is impacted by true nature, can come to the place where it is happy that it doesn’t know. It is delighted that it doesn’t have all the answers. In the beginning, we want all the answers. We want the keys to all the secret compartments. But the mind, at some point, becomes much more intoxicated when it realizes, “I opened a million doors, and there are trillions more . . . Wow!” – The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers’ Stone and the Secrets of Existence, Ch. 11