How would You Paint God?

[mazHur]

God is Light...colors within a color!

God speaks to each of us: Rainer Maria Rilke


1.
God speaks to each of us as He makes us,
continuous,
then with us, silently out of the night,
He walks.

These are the words we dimly hear:

"You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
walk to the furthest horizon
of your yearning.

Embody Me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can veil Myself in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose Me.
Don't let yourself lose Me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its majestic seriousness.

Now, my friend,
Give Me your hand.

Hold the Hand of the only real Friend
You ever had."


- Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated reworked by Sadiq Alam

[cacian]

God is Light...colors within a color!

God speaks to each of us: Rainer Maria Rilke


1.
God speaks to each of us as He makes us,
continuous,
then with us, silently out of the night,
He walks.

These are the words we dimly hear:

"You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
walk to the furthest horizon
of your yearning.

Embody Me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can veil Myself in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose Me.
Don't let yourself lose Me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its majestic seriousness.


- Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated reworked by Sadiq Alam

Now, my friend,
Give Me your hand.

Hold the Hand of the only real Friend
You ever had."

These last lines are rather worrying/pretentious.
I think real friends go beyond and after god.
There is life after religion and god and that I know for sure

[mazHur]

These last lines are rather worrying/pretentious.
I think real friends go beyond and after god.
There is life after religion and god and that I know for sure

Really?? I don't find any speck of pretension in those lines.

When there is nobody
Nothing pretentious
Nothing seductive
Nothing banal
No Fear
In my Heart
You, my Friend
Are there.

How do you say there is 'life after religion and god and that I (you) know it for sure'??? Has anybody returned from the other side to tell you about that??


Mind is a Cheat
An Imposter
Devises its own ways
For its own convenience
Let Heart be your Guide
Let this Genuine One be your Messiah
Let Him take the charge
Follow Him
He won't betray you
Even if He faulted
In Good Faith
Unlike the Devilish Mind
A Hot spring of Ugly Doubts.

[cacian]

Really?? I don't find any speck of pretension in those lines.

When there is nobody
Nothing pretentious
Nothing seductive
Nothing banal
No Fear
In my Heart
You, my Friend
Are there.

How do you say there is 'life after religion and god and that I (you) know it for sure'??? Has anybody returned from the other side to tell you about that??


Mind is a Cheat
An Imposter
Devises its own ways
For its own convenience
Let Heart be your Guide
Let this Genuine One be your Messiah
Let Him take the charge
Follow Him
He won't betray you
Even if He faulted
In Good Faith
Unlike the Devilish Mind
A Hot spring of Ugly Doubts.

Hehe...Ithink it the fact that God is mentioned to the ONLY real friend means to me that it does not trust man/humans to have real friends between themselves.
For me it means it undermines human friendship.

[mazHur]

Hehe...Ithink it the fact that God is mentioned to the ONLY real friend means to me that it does not trust man/humans to have real friends between themselves.
For me it means it undermines human friendship.

Well, that's a wrong perception of God. God is all good, only we create evil for ourselves by choosing the wrong path. When two humans take one thing, such as a Table or a Chair, from different angles only then the real trouble starts and rifts get created between them. Another analogy can be drawn from the Traffic rules. All goes well if one follows the traffic rules as that is exactly what is required for drivers own safety and safety of others. But when these rules are broken one cannot blame the Traffic laws....the offender is himself/herself for the resulting bad happening for himself as well as for others. It is here that people usually misconceive God and blame him for their own failings.

[MarkBastable]

God is all good...

Says who?

Oh - hang on. God.

[mazHur]

Says who?

Oh - hang on. God.

IF God was bad he could have brought an end to this whole show in a jiffy!

[MarkBastable]

IF God was bad he could have brought an end to this whole show in a jiffy!

If God was bad he'd let this show go on.

...oh - hang on again.

[cafolini]

God is neither good nor bad. God is a berlief many people have in order to cope with life and each interprets it in whateverwhichway they please.

[MarkBastable]

God is neither good nor bad. God is a berlief many people have in order to cope with life and each interprets it in whateverwhichway they please.

Ooh, there's a view worth contemplating.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yes, quite exciting.

[mazHur]

at-turuqu ila 'Llahi ka-nufusi bani Adam: The ways to God are as numerous as the children of Adam.
- Sacred Tradition of Islam


For everyone there is a direction towards which one turns.
- The Quran 2:148

[mazHur]

If God was bad he'd let this show go on.

...oh - hang on again.

IF God was bad he wouldn't let this show go on and off!

[Alexander III]

IF God was bad he wouldn't let this show go on and off!

hahah, that was a good reply, I think you got the better of mark there.

I do enjoy these witty exchanges.

[Alexander III]

If God was bad he'd let this show go on.

...oh - hang on again.

You can end the show whenever you want, God gave you the choice to leave when you please. So not so much of a valid argument.