Listening

I believe there are many things that are intuitive to us. We know when we are hungry and we eat. We know about hot and cold. Thirst is automatically recognized. Sustaining life is intuitive. When we are babies we of course require assistance. We need help. We still make our needs known because we are aware. And there is another area that we intuitively reach out for help. That area is the spiritual. Since the beginning man has known that there is a greater power than ourselves. We have attempted to define that power ever since.
My point here is, the spiritual is intuitive. It is my belief that we do not need to be told there is a God. The only thing we are taught is about whatever God our ancestors have worshiped. We can either adopt that definition of God or find our own. I do believe it is the foolish person that denies the existence of any God. Man in all his knowledge and wisdom cannot create a thing. The best we can do is reshape existing matter, change it into a different form. We can not make something from nothing. That is the provenance of God.
Man has always appealed to his Gods. Man has always known it is a necessary thing. We must have an avenue of hope. The promise of reward is also a necessary thing. The removal of either of those two items leaves us in despair. John Dome wrote the famous line, "no man is an island entire of itself."  He wrote that as he was close to death. Many, more scholarly people than I, have interpreted what it was he was saying. I think each poem speaks to each us differently. I believe he was saying man is connected to his fellow man and that connection is through God. He says we are all part of the continent, a part of the main. We are one, is what I hear him saying. And to be one, we need to be one with the creator. How can we be one if we do not know him ? The answer is simple really, we are born with that knowledge. That is why man has always sought his God. It is only in ignorance that we turn away. Many messengers have been sent to remind man and offer encouragement. I say turn to them and read their messages. I believe the message is always the same. They all delineate what Jefferson called our inalienable rights. The intuitive actions we should practice and expect in return. If we would listen to our intuition, the voice of our souls, we would all be much better off. The world would be a much better place as well.