A briliant light hidden in all the forms you see

[delphipsmith]

"Some people will use a symbolism of the relationship of God to the universe, wherein God is a brilliant light, only somehow veiled, hiding underneath all these forms that you see as you look around you. But the truth is funnier than that. It is that you are looking right at the brilliant light now, that the experience you are having which you call

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[chienne_folle]

I was ruined at 12, when I read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and Valentine Michael Smith told all and sundry, "Thou art God." :-)

[delphipsmith]

If only more of us knew it, we might be a happier species...

[mimimanderly]

It makes me wonder how many other "senses" could be available to us, but we do not have the organs to perceive them. We cannot even conceive of them! That blows my mind!

[delphipsmith]

One of my favorite quotes is this, from poet Kenneth Fearing:

You, you
and all of the things that the world ignores, all of the
things that the world has forgotten, all that the
world will never know
you and the glow-worm, you and the rainbow, you and
the desert mirage and the Northern Lights
you, the footstep, you, the drumbeat, you, the firedance,
you, the whirlwind, you, the trigger, the bullet,
the heart, and the shield.

[tcpip]

"Whether we say ... that all things happen according to the laws of Nature, or are ordered by the decree and direction of God, we say the same thing."
-- Spinoza

[delphipsmith]

I really need to read more Spinoza...