Alan Watts - You don't look out there for God, something...
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Alan Watts - You don't look out there for God, something...
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi Quotes (Author of The Essential Rumi)
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.
Alice Walker • The Color Purple
It is so easy to look for answers outside of ourselves when the real work at hand is an inside job. God lives in and all around us, we are never not connected to spirit, even in our darkest moments.
Trusting the Inner Self
God is never any object to be found or possessed as we find other objects, but the One who shares your own deepest subjectivity - or your ‘self’. We normally called it our soul. Religion called it ‘the Divine Indwelling.’
Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond
The Kotzker Rebbe famously asked his disciples where God dwells. Schooled in the rudiments of theology, they answered, “Everywhere.” Doesn’t the prophet teach us that “all the world is filled with His glory” (Isaiah 6:3)? But the Kotzker was having none of it. “No,” he told them, “God dwells wherever we let God in.”