Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."

Taste and see that Yahweh is good.

Be still, and know that I am God.

I hold myself in quiet and silence,
like a little child in its mother's arms

Moses then said to God, "Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,"'and they say to me, "What is his name?" what am I to tell them?' God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.'

Mountains and hills,
bring peace to the people!

My heart and my body cry out for joy
to the living God.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao,
The name that can be named is not the eternal name,
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.

So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy.