Define god; Rumi

Shushersbedamned · Jun 15, 2018

I read this poem from Rumi and I ran to these beautiful words:

When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes.

It was longer than that - the paragraph but those are the most beautiful words.

So I invite people to share their own special findings of such defining/describing words - or you can just tell us how you define god or describe him/them.

This is perhaps a more artful approach. Short poems or lyrics are welcome, anything at all so long as it touches someone's heart.

james blunt · Jun 15, 2018

Shushersbedamned said:
I read this poem from Rumi and I ran to these beautiful words:

It was longer than that - the paragraph but those are the most beautiful words.

So I invite people to share their own special findings of such defining/describing words - or you can just tell us how you define god or describe him/them.

This is perhaps a more artful approach. Short poems or lyrics are welcome, anything at all so long as it touches someone's heart.

The provider of infomation
Like a cosmic insertion
A mental exertion
One thing that is certain
Feeling and hurting
Until the final curtain
Stomach churning
A long yearning
Learning
What is God

Quintessence · Jun 15, 2018

Uh oh... which look in my eyes? That look? Or that look?

Something that inspired me many years ago was a question: if you designed god, or an entity/entities worthy of worship, what would they be like?

It really changed how I thought about theism. Ultimately, our thinking about the gods is a construct based on our life experiences. I recognized for the first time that I could be the artist of that painting instead of following someone else's paint-by-number. To let expressions of the gods be something of an art. That the landscapes I paint happen to resemble someone else's ideas about gods is a happy coincidence.

stvdv · Jun 15, 2018

15 jun 2018 stvdv 011 50

Shushersbedamned said:
I read this poem from Rumi and I ran to these beautiful words:
When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes.

This comes from Rumi, so it probably is deep:

Going deep inside, the spiritual eye
Not going outside, the normal eyes

Do you have worldly look/desires in your eyes
Do you have divine look/detachment in your eyes

Finally, once experienced God within
You also see God outside
Being free of attachments to desires

Dawnofhope · Jun 15, 2018

This heart it has been broken
My mind forever opened
To the questions I must ask
To reach but never grasping

Jedster · Jun 16, 2018

@Shushersbedamned

Here is what Kabir said:

The Lord is in me, and the Lord is in you,
As life is hidden in every seed.
So rubble your pride, my friend,
And look for Him within you.

When I sit in the heart of His world
A million suns blaze with light,
A burning blue sea spreads across the sky,
Life's turmoil falls quiet,
All the stains of suffering wash away.

Listen to the unstruck bells and drums!
Love is here; plunge into its rapture!
Rains pour down without water;
Rivers are streams of light.

How could I ever express
How blessed I feel
To revel in such vast ecstasy
In my own body?

This is the music
Of soul and soul meeting,
Of the forgetting of all grief.
This is the music
That transcends all coming and going

The Lord Is In Me Poem by Kabir - Poem Hunter

Shushersbedamned · Jun 16, 2018

Allen Ginsberg howl, Kaddish and other Poems

Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the afternoon I climbed up a ladder - He has a cheap cabin in the country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.
I cooked supper for him. I made him nice supper - lentil soup, vegetables, bread & butter - miltz - he sat down at the table and ate, he was sad.
I told him, Look at all those fighting and killings down there, What's the matter? Why don't you put a stop to it?
I try, he said - that's all he could do, he looked tired. He's a bachelor so long, and he likes lentil soup.[UOTE]

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Aiviu · Jun 20, 2018

O’ day, arise!
Shine your light, the atoms are dancing.
Thanks to Him the universe is dancing.
overcome with ecstasy,

Free from body and mind
I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is leading them.
All the atoms in the air and in the desert are dancing,
puzzled and drunken to the ray of light,
they seem insane.

All these atoms are not so different than we are,
happy or miserable,
perplexed and bewildered,
we are all beings in the ray of light from the beloved,
nothing can be said.

from Rumi – Poem of the Atoms

Define god; Rumi

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