God Confidence: The Loving, Caring Presence

So I was saying about God confidence that it can seem strange that sages of the past have said that we are absolutely nothing. We are nobody, nothing special at all. And yet they seem to have this immense strength in their life when they deal with any obstacle that comes. You see, they are not phased by things that Maya throws at them. You see, and it can seem a bit strange: how is such a meek one dealing with these situations with so much strength? Where is the source of that strength? Where is the source of that confidence? You see, and that source of that confidence is as we deepen in our faith and we realize that it's not just lip service to say that God is here, but to see that He's actually here as a factual reality, more than sitting on the couch. You see, and if He's actually here, He's not here in a sterile witnessing or a sterile presence sort of way, which we often confuse when we call Brahman the pure witnessing—which it is, but it is not a sterile witnessing. You know what I mean by that? It's not just like aloof, you see, that my children are going through all of this and I'm just aloof, I'm just untouched by all of this. It's a very loving, caring presence in the form of God Himself, in the form of consciousness itself.

Now consciousness is the birthplace of the universe and many universes, as we were talking about the other day. So if the birthing ground of the universe is here with me in a loving and caring way, then what should my level of confidence be? What should it be? It should be infinite, isn't it? Because the one who is the source of all of this, He is with me and I am all that counts for Him in this moment when I am with Him. You see, I don't know the mechanics of how that works. I just know intuitively that that is true. You see, that if I make Him most important to me right now in my heart, then I am the most important to Him in His heart in this moment. So I cannot be neglected by Him and He's here in that way. Then how much anxiety or fear can we have about what life has in store for us? Huh?