🌀 God | Source
Reflections on source, spirit, religion and god
🌀 God | Source
"God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape." - AC/DC's road manager, Barry Taylor.
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“The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.”... See more
“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you
Joseph Campbell | Pantheism.com
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.
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That said, Sufis consider all orthodoxy, all traditional teachings, the law, theology, and the Five Pillars inadequate for attaining true knowledge of God. Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by whic
... See moreReza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
A Garden Beyond Paradise
by Rumi
Everything you see has its roots
in the unseen world.
The forms may change,
yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish,
every sweet word will fade.
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is eternal--
growing, branching out,
giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?--
That Source is wit... See more
by Rumi
Everything you see has its roots
in the unseen world.
The forms may change,
yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish,
every sweet word will fade.
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is eternal--
growing, branching out,
giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?--
That Source is wit... See more
A Garden Beyond Paradise, by Rumi
May the Source be with you.
— August Aalstad
Drunk without wine, sated without food, a king beneath a humble cloak, a treasure within a ruin, Sufism is to Islam what the heart is to the human being: its vital center, the seat of its essence. It is, in Maj-nun’s words, “the pearl hidden in the shell, the face beneath the veil.” Sufism is the secret, subtle reality concealed at the very depths ... See more
Reza Aslan • No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Despite more than two thousand years of cultivating our individual spiritual capacities to awaken the Kingdom of God within us , it is now the absence of the Kingdom of God between us which threatens our very existence.
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? You feel the separation from the Beloved ... ~ Rumi