Okay, Bill, it's just like that. You KNOW it when you love someone. No one can provide empirical proof of the reality of that, only circumstantial and experiential evidence, but you KNOW it.

That's what it's like when you attain spiritual knowledge. To try to prove it to anyone else is an exercise in futility, and it doesn't matter anyway. They have a perfect right to believe whatever they choose to. That's their path of learning, and is suitable to them.

It's LOVE. Powerful love. Pure and simple and totally obvious to the one who experiences it. No one can prove or disprove the existence of God, but they CAN experience the love of God...and for God. And they can do it without belonging to any organized religion or sect or dogma. A squirrel can do it at sunrise or in one quiet moment while lying on a branch. I've seen them do it. People have the most difficulty doing it of all, because their busy little minds won't stop talking. They only time they shut up is when they sleep.

- LH