Motion for the motionless

In chapter six, Aristotle claimed that "since there must always be motion and not be any gaps, there must be something everlasting that originates motion, whether it is one thing or more than one; and the first mover is motionless"--a statement that closely ties in with the idea I spoke of in my last post: something much larger than us, predetermining the overall flow of life. I find this idea of a higher power hard to overlook, and even harder to accept as a guiding force in the motion of our lives. If we are to accept the idea that even when we are still, some greater motion is the force guiding us, we accept--essentially--a god. We can rip the label off, and name is something cleverly post-modern, but the idea persists; we are accepting something outside of our means as an omniscient force that knows more than we. While I'm not trying to bash god, or belittle religious individuals, I am trying to say I think to genuinely denounce something bigger than us that knows better, is to find your way in the purest sense. Without the false pretense of something that will work out everything in the end, you are forced to engage--rather crudely--with the everyday, the here and the now. I feel like people too often chalk up hardships to the end result of getting through it, that they too often fail to engage with the present. Aristotle's idea of endless perpetual motion helps ignore the present struggle, and overlook the awareness needed to proceed.