The Jewish version of Islam's "There is no god but God" (lā ilaha illa al-lāh) is found in Deuteronomy 6:4 ("the Lord our God is one Lord"); the Christian version in I Corinthians 8:4 ("there is no God but one").
All three agree that the one God is unnameable, does not fit inside any human category, is beyond human understanding, and yet is knowable. The knowing comes from within.
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Fear created God.
ReplyDeleteThe ending of fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I'd say fear creates gods.
ReplyDeleteWe have no idea who or what created God,
Who as far as we know is the Uncreated.
When you get right down to it, you yourself do not exist. You THINK you do. You have carefully (and not so carefully) constructed a story with the aid of a willing society and your friends and family and believe that story is you! Fear, conformity, and the desire to please plus a rebellious stubbornness assisted you in becoming enamored of your story which you now claim as an identity. This is true for all of us, until we realize that our story is just that, a story.
ReplyDeleteThe fear of the story is the beginning of wisdom.
Wisdom itself is Love's Light.
ReplyDeleteAnd Love by its energetic nature involves the forgetting of self, whether as a bodhisattva (Buddhist), a saint (Christian), a man of light (Islam), or any of the other names for this phase of the journey.
Without Love, we are nothing. And the funny thing about it is , that with Love, we truly are nothing.
Thought created the Story, the World.
ReplyDeleteThe ending of the story is the beginning of love. Love is the ending of fear. End of story.
Love is when there is beauty. Beauty is truth. Truth beauty.