I don't like the last part that says "Our mind is pure and simple. When it is emptied of thought, it enters the pure and simple light of God, and finds nothing but the light." It sounds like something people at church would tell people to make them become zombies. It makes me think that you need to empty your mind from your own thoughts to have someone else thoughts pushed into your head and not think for yourself. If God didn't want us to think for ourselves then he never would have given us the ability to do so.
I really like the first paragraph that describes the man walking knee deep into the water and being able to see about him. But when he dives in, he can see nothing but the waster surrounding in. It's like seeing everything in a whole new way and if the water is God, than in ways he's seeing everything in a better way and through the eyes of God.
I think you interpreted the empty-mind concept in a really interesting way. I've always felt that the more I'm told tofill myself with the words of God or with whatever someone is telling me it is an intrusion and I only get more lost. However, when I clear my mind, I find that I am able to truly listen to myself or to God (whichever you think it is) and it seems much more pure. I had never thought of it in the way you saw it and it really made me think! Thanks for that.
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