We Are In God, And All That Is In God Is In Us
"Man is not made by God as the wood is cut by the carpenter, for the carpenter and the wood are different, while God and man are the same. He creates of Himself; consequently His manifestation is also God. Man is made of the substance of God; man is in God, and all that is in God is in man.""The individual soul is a shoot that springs from the all-pervading Spirit, its goal being its origin; and every attachment it has on its way is, no doubt, a detaining on the journey. The soul is never fully satisfied so long as it has not reached its destination. The love of the external world is a rehearsal before the performance, which is the love of God, the Inner Being."
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (1827-1927), the teacher who brought Sufism to the West
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 8:54 PM
6 Comments:
What a great reading! I have heard it said that: "Truth is one, sages call it by many names", and this is proof of that adage. Thank you for your work on this blog, I definitely will visit here often.
Peace
Mark
How I wish more people had the wisdom to teach this utterly simple, pure truth openly.
I love this. Love, love, love it.
Fantastic! Indeed, all things are shoots that spring forth from Spirit. Thanks, Darrell.
Darrell I love your blog. It give me much food and for someone like me who struggles to make enough time to sit in front of a screen it is a welcome window to links and ideas to follow. I have been looking at some of the Sufi references and this quote is a nice succinct one. Thankyou.
But it raises difficult questions for me. If the first paragraph is true, how is that there is a "destination" that the soul is restless to reach or an "external" world to be distracted by?
In our current life (in the dualistic physical world), we are part of God and at the same time separate from God -- a paradox that doesn't make sense with the rational mind. As the wave longs to return to the sea from whence it came (and of which it is still a part), so the soul yearns to be reunited with the Divine Source from whence we all came. This paradoxical longing is the source of the poetry of Rumi and other Sufi mystics, who write of the Lover longing to be reunited with the Divine Beloved.
Thanks to all of you for your kind words about my blog and about this entry!
Darrell
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