God is infinite omnipresence. He is present in everything equally. His light shines not only in wisdom sparkling diamond souls but also in charcoal and mentalities dark with ignorance. Because God has given us independence to choose between error and truth we can keep our mind transparent with purity of knowledge and love or dark with dogma and inharmony. God has endowed us with his own power of liberty.
Thus man can shut God out by indifference or receive him through meditation, logic and right actions, in the struggle of life. That some people know less than others is not due to Gods limiting the flow of his power to certain men but to their not allowing God‘s light to pass through their consciousness. Such ignorance-stricken people may be healed of delusion’s diseases by contacting the Christ consciousness through meditation and faith.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
All my experiences in life and watching others as well have left me with more of an understanding of how true this statement is and how we all have this freedom of choice but how few use it and recognize the seriousness of these words.
