Man has lived under this impression
of God as a person, and then two calamities have happened through it.
One is the so-called religious man,
who thinks God is somewhere above the sky and you have to praise him,
to persuade him to confer favors on you, to help you to fulfill your desires,
to make your ambitions succeed,
to give you the wealth of this world AND of the other world.
And this is sheer wastage of time and energy.
And on the opposite pole the people who saw the stupidity of it all became atheists; they started denying the existence of God. They were right in a sense, but they were also wrong. They started denying not only the personality of God, they started to deny even the experience of God.
The theist is wrong, the atheist is wrong, and man needs a new vision so that he can be freed from both the prisons.
God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
Once you start looking at God as godliness there will be a radical change in your approach. Then prayer is no more valid; meditation becomes valid.
~ OSHO – I Am That – Isha Upanishad