What I've learned this week is rather deep. I was watching a conversation, a 4 hour conversation between 3 of the smartest theoretical scientists in the world the other day. A few things I found very interesting and dad and I have been discussing it. First that relationship is the most important thing in the world. Relationship with God, with others, with ourselves. Second that the only thing that comes between pure relationship is the images that we make about ourselves and others.

They talked about how people are raised to create images about themselves and others. By images I mean points of view that are not real. For example a boy is being raised by his father and is father is manly and tough (that is the image he has about himself) the boy realizes that when he acts manly and tough he gets more attention from his father (now the boy has the image). The part that doesn't work in all this is that the images aren't real. Just because I think that everyone in the world should be like me, doesn't mean it is true.

Another example is the basketball player. He has the image of himself as a basketball player. What happens when he doesn't play like he thinks he should. He fights within himself "I'm better then that" He compares himself with his image and comes up lacking.

The way I look at it, all images, about what we think things should be like, must go. We must let go of the idea that we should become like a God, when we don't know what He is like. When we let go of all images and preconceived notions, then He comes into our lives, because we're no longer telling Him what He should be like. In this way we find Him a lot sweeter, a lot gentler, a lot kinder then we ever could have imagined. By letting go of the idea that our brains know ANYTHING, we can learn EVERYTHING.