"I need God as much as He needs me. Not because He needs me, L.N., but because I am His manifestation, one of (to me) the infinitesimal organs of His infinite organism (to me, who cannot understand anything outside of time, the timeless seems infinite). Just as the smallest cell of the organism is indispensable to me as long as it is part of my body, but not this particular cell. So am I to Him.
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I need God as much as He needs me. Not because He needs me, L.N., but because I am His manifestation, one of (to me) the infinitesimal organs of His infinite organism (to me, who cannot understand anything outside of time, the timeless seems infinite). Just as the smallest cell of the organism is indispensable to me as long as it is part of my body, but not this particular cell. So am I to Him.
""Am nevoie de Dumnezeu la fel de mult cât are și El nevoie de mine. Nu pentru că El ar avea nevoie de mine, L. N., ci pentru că sunt manifestarea Lui, unul dintre (pentru mine) organele infinit mici ale organismului Lui infinit (pentru mine, care nu pot înțelege nimic în afara timpului, atemporalul pare infinit). Așa cum cea mai mică celulă a organismului mi-e indispensabilă cât timp face parte din corpul meu, dar nu anume această celula. La fel sunt și eu pentru El."