Vika Krieger

And it's just like, oh, there's just this kind of like steady presence connected to something bigger that I can just relax into.

So those are like maybe, as I think about it, like two places where I definitely feel God.

I was talking to my friend Adina this week, who's a spiritual leader here in Brooklyn.

And we were talking about this whole idea of like believers versus non-believers.

And we were saying how that doesn't feel like the right way to divide the world between like atheists and believers or like people who believe in God and people who don't believe in God.

It's people who think about the nature of existence and people who don't.

A lot of people ask, do you believe in God?

My version of that question is I start with, what do you believe in?

In every spiritual tradition, there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to define God.

I think that in essence, you can find a definition of God in some spiritual tradition that resonates with what you believe in, in terms of the nature of existence.

But that means you have to be curious about the nature of existence.

Why are we here?

What's happening in the world beyond what can be explained by science?

You have to be interested in asking those questions.

Totally.

Yeah.

I mean, like people ask me like, well, like, why do you believe in God?

And I'm like, because I like to.

It nourishes me.

It gives my life meaning.