We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, God set himself to oversee it and manage it. We see God as our boss. He created the universe, he is present in it, he manages every part of it, but he is still separate from it. It's like he installed video cameras all over the universe, so he can see everything that happens, and he can cause this or that to happen, but he is not a part of what happens. The Eastern view is very different. To the Hindu, for example, God didn't create the universe, but God became the universe. Then he forgot that he became the universe. Why would God do this? Basically, for entertainment. You create a universe, and that in itself is very exciting. But then what? Should you sit back and watch this universe of yours having all the fun? No, you should have all the fun yourself. To accomplish this, God transformed into the whole universe. God is the Universe, and everything in it. But the universe doesn't know that because that would ruin the suspense. The universe is God's great drama, and God is the stage, the actors, and the audience all at once. The title of this epic drama is "The Great Unknown Outcome." Throw in potent elements like passion, love, hate, good, evil, free will; and who knows what will happen? No one knows, and that is what keeps the universe interesting. But everyone will have a good time. And there is never really any danger, because everyone is really God, and God is really just playing around.
Warren SharpeStichwörter: religion spirituality mysticism eastern-religion philosophy-of-religion pandeism
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
Dan SimmonsStichwörter: revelation mysticism
It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: mysticism
But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: religion saints mysticism
I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.
Swami Dhyan GitenStichwörter: life consciousness man woman god mystery meditation awareness mysticism tree flower surrender
A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence.
Swami Dhyan GitenStichwörter: life consciousness truth existence spirituality meditation awareness mysticism bliss
If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.
Wasif Ali WasifStichwörter: mysticism sufi-wisdom
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
Wasif Ali WasifStichwörter: mysticism sufi-wisdom
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
Wasif Ali WasifStichwörter: mysticism sufi-wisdom
Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.
Wasif Ali WasifStichwörter: mysticism sufi-wisdom
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