A look at a Sufi quote on God.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23734)
Australia
June 5, 2021 11:32pm CST
"What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?"
Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari, a Shadhili Sufi (1260 to 1309) said this.
I could add these two extra questions to his two, too.
What has he found who has found God?
And what has he lost who has lost God?
Love is the answer to my questions, but what is the answer to his questions?
Yourself?
Life is not life for God until he lives it in you.
Allow God to be alive in you.
Finding God, also finds yourself.
Losing God, loses you, from being your real self too.
We can only be our real self by knowing God, and allowing him to reveal our true self to us too.
When God is a part of us, we are a part of him.
We can not be truly alive without God's real love in us, helping us to be all that we can truly be as our real/true selves for him.
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Be a dancer for God, not a duncer!
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
6 Jun 21
Yes, I agree completely with you there.
If we lose God, we lose contact with his love in us. If we find God, we connect ourselves to God's love in us.
@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
6 Jun 21
Take God on board all the time and then feel the lightness of being.
When we distance ourselves from God, we are also doing that from our true selves too.
Then emptiness sets in.
We need to re-dock to mother ship of God and play our part, be fully in the game of life.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
6 Jun 21
Thanks, siva. That is what I was trying to say too.
Our true self rests within God, waiting to power us with itself, when we plug our minds, and our hearts into God.
When we plug into our true self, within God, we re-dock with God too.
I think that our souls are always a part of God.
When we die, we can rejoin our soul, or if we think that we were only the body, when that part of us disappears, we would then virtually disappear then too.
Our minds would die with the body, and perhaps we would be given a new mind and body, to have another go at getting it right next time again too.
In truth, our soul would lose nothing, as all loss is really just an illusion.
@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
7 Jun 21
@innertalks Thanks Steve, we have to keep it simple - we do God's bidding and for that we have to stay connected. It cannot be like how an army man confessed to me. He pretended not to hear orders to go further ahead at the war front but could hear crystal clear orders to withdraw from the battle front!
Whatever I see around me, belongs to our creator including us. Then I am a caretaker of all everything and I own nothing! That is the true meaning, or even harsh reality, of creation tough to stomach for a few. I used to hear "HOW CAN? in Singapore. All material wealth left behind, only the true self gets the nod.
We return without our body and that leaves us truly exposed as to what we were up to here. No place to hide then. Better to be a good boy then, we really have no choice then though minor indiscretions could get waived!
We should be the purest of pure and then we are waved in or else get shooed away.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
7 Jun 21
@innertalks Yes, we are never alone as God is ever present in his creations.
The leash is flexible but better to be tethered to it consciously with God's love and care flowing through it
We were colleagues many years ago and he had a great sense of humor and never-say-die spirit borne out of army survival training.
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