Spirituality
 

Sometimes God appears to us as an other and sometimes as our self. It's a mystery.

Nobody ever taught me to think like this. Now I'm being taught by God himself.

Coincidentally, somebody posted today a link to a 1935 youtube-video showing Ramana Maharshi. There is no sound, but a transcript, where he states "In fact God is none other than the Self". But obviously the questioners don't understand what he talks about. One of them asks after that: "Yogananda: Why does God permit suffering in the world? Should He not with His omnipotence do away with it at one stroke and ordain the universal realisation of God?"