My last question received this response:
"I searched for God and found only myself;
I searched for myself and found only God."
Thoughts?
2007-07-09 14:24:59 · 20 answers · asked by Skye 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The individual said it was a Sufi proverb, and the question was considering personal experience, scientific/logical approaches, and the nature of knowledge.
2007-07-09 14:29:28 · update #1
Ah, I see that thinking is dead tonight.
Come on, don't just label it as meaningless or egotistical. A proverb like this has as much meaning as you are willing to read into it, so how do you read it?
2007-07-09 14:31:08 · update #2
Interesting quote. Perhaps it's referring to both God and the self as impossible to completely know. When you try to fully understand one, there are gaps which can only be filled in by the other.
For me, personally, the first part reminds me of how I used to search and pray fervently for God to reveal himself to me. Eventually I came to realize that the miracles, love, and hope that I had felt, had all come from my own desires and thinking. You build your own fate; you don't receive one from the heavens.
The second part may be true for somebody else who meditates on his own nature and realizes some larger truth about life. I would consider that larger truth to be a form of a God.
2007-07-10 18:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your current responses have forced me into answering... though I doubt mine will improve anything.
I think this quote can be taken in many different ways depending on what perspective a person looks at it. What does it mean to me? When a person believes in a god and searches for him/her, he may be surprised to find that the things (miracles, blessings, success) he thought to be given to him by god were all things he managed to do on his own.
Likewise, when a person has too much faith in himself and looks for the reasons why he is so successful, he might find that some of those successes weren't done by his own actions alone.
Or perhaps it has to do with knowledge/enlightenment. Being one with god, etc.
It's a lame answer... but there you go!
2007-07-09 22:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by Cat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like " I found God within myself"--which, to me, is "new age" thinking. If anyone sincerely searches for God, they will find Him.
2007-07-09 22:30:46 · answer #3 · answered by beano™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That response is fantastic! When one is open to their higher consciousness, they find God exists in them, as he does in Mother Nature. God is all life and all love. When one has reached "enlightenment" one realizes that while he/she is not God, but OF God, they are now ONE WITH God. And THAT is perfect balance.
2007-07-09 21:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by deleriumbliss 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sounds like the person is a believer in god and feels their being is only whole with their god
2007-07-09 21:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by Daisy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's something that a person addicted to Kahlil Gabran would say.
2007-07-09 21:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people think they are God. It's the new age way of thinking. They are horribly mistaken.
2007-07-09 21:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by George 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes three rights make a left
2007-07-09 21:28:02 · answer #8 · answered by nujorican 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you don't search for God anywhere ("anywhere" maybe places, objects or even people)... for you might end up being alone...
bible says "if God be with me, who can be against me?".... Search within yourself, do you find God?if yes, then good.
2007-07-09 21:41:33 · answer #9 · answered by jewl_adi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've read more interesting stuff on the back of a cereal box.
2007-07-09 21:28:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋