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Originally Posted by Vulcan

Pretty much, except I'm a little jaded and I was never comfortable with believing in a god but needed the experience.

The confusion came from me trying to convey that it is a personal god, but that doesn't mean no one else knows about this god. From my listening to others and reading some of the enlightened people from the past, many others know this god.

Here's a few sayings from Kabir:

Like the pupil in the eyes
The Lord resides inside
Ignorant do not know this fact
They search Him outside

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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

You don't grasp the fact that
what is most alive of all

is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next
with a confused look!

Kabir will tell you the truth:
go wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet;
if you can't find where your soul is hidden,
for you the world will never be real!

I don't know what sort of a God we have been talking about.
The caller calls in a loud voice to the Holy One at dusk.
Why? Surely the Holy One is not deaf.
He hears the delicate anklets that ring on the feet of an insect as it walks.

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead,
wear your hair matted, long, and ostentatious,
but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun,
how can you have God?

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O Kabir, He alone the Warrior, who takes on the "mind" head-on
Crushing the shield of the sensual five, all duality is gone

Thanks appreciate your input. I think you are trying to tell us you are Muslim.