What do you think of this quote?

Question

"The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one."

-- The Upanishads

Your thoughts? Please be respectful and thoughtful in your answers. Thank you for participating.

Were you also aware that at the quantum level, we ARE all one?

Answer 1

The human spirit can transcend to many places.

I can stand alone at the top of mountain with 18 fresh inches of sparkly snow in the morning hours with the haze of my breath currling upwards and be many different places and many different things.

I can be the sun who warms my cheeks.
I can be the redtail hawk looking for breakfast.
I can be the silence of the snow.
I can be the little cracks from the pine trees.
I can be the s***-e**ing grin on my face as I leave a pair of fresh tracks down the mountian.

Answer 2

Namaste. As a yoga practitioner I believe that it means my whole being is one with all things. I am a part of all things in the universal matrix. When I perform a sun salutation it is a form of worship and also a means of channeling sun in the heart as I am working to open the central channel of the body or the susumna nadi. That is why yoga is usually practiced in the morning. At any rate, I am not separate from the sun or from anything or anyone else. Om shanti
Amazing that people are calling the Upanishads Pantheistic.....oh, well......what ya' gonna do?

Answer 3

Hello dear!
There is no Universe without a little ant, an amoebae or even a sole grain! Universe needs all, the galaxies and the atoms, otherwise this Universe is obsolete!
The Sun exists because of this unknown Mandarin girl in the rice fields! The Sun can't raise if this electric guitar chord does not exist! Mother Earth rotates around the Sun dancing for Andromeda to learn!
All is one, that is why the speed of light is small compared to the speed of though!
Even the smallest molecule and atom communicates with another one million years of light away instantaneously, because all is one!

Answer 4

We are the stuff of stars and our earliest forms of spirituality recognized that connection. I do have a Pantheistic view of Creation and it is harmonious with science to my way of thinking.

Science is just another way of seeking and understanding the world, this sacred world. I do believe that the Sun is a form of life, a sacred being. Science tells us there is more than one way that life may evovle and I believe that one day science will confirm a broader way of defining life as we grow in our understanding of things. I believe that science will confirm or lean more and more towards a Pantheistic view of existance the further it evolves.

I recognise that may seem problematic to some, even naive. Our human evolution does seem to have stagnated around greed, fear, domination, dogma, manipulation and various other forms of negativity.

Regardless of the various interpretations, there is a great universality amongst us under the Sun, of the Sun, of the Stars.

Peace and awareness!
Fiat Lux!

Jamie

Answer 5

Absolutely beautiful and 100% aaccurate. There is nothing in the Universe that opporates without energy. Energy is the driving force and inside every single thing in the world. It is why people can do such amazing things, because some can shift energy. Thank you for the beauty this morning. :-)

Answer 6

First Love the quote.

I think the quote is talking about how we are all connected to everything. Kind of like what Mufasa said to Simba in the Lion King; 'When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.'

Answer 7

As a heathen, I take a slightly different "read" on it . . . probably different from what was originally meant, as well, lol.

Nowhere does the passage imply pantheism . . . only that all energy, or "maegn," is one energy---same in type, same in being, emanating from one place and/or connected to itself wherever it manifests.

I might call that the Web of Wyrd, or the Web of Right Relationships, depending on the context, but the core value of my heathenry is not only recognizing it in the universe, but in myself . . . that I too am an integral part of it all.

Answer 8

It has a nice ring to it-- I like it--
I don't quite get the spirit bit but it is kind of mind-blowing when you stop to think that we are all one small part of one vast universe

Answer 9

I agree. We are made up of mostly "empty" space. Through quantum catacombs of emptiness, the dark matter of God may course.

Answer 10

Pantheism.