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What Makes God a Reality?

posted by Annie B. Bond Jul 9, 2003 11:55 pm
filed under: Spirituality, Inspiration
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By Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan; the Care2 Wisdom Keeper Series.

The great Sufi teacher and leader, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, described a “magical trigger that sets off the explosion of life as the cosmos.” This magical trigger is also the key to “our ponderings concerning the meaningfulness of our lives, our strivings, our frustrations, our disappointments, our disenchantment, and perhaps our reenchantment.”

It is this key which makes God a reality. Find out what it is, here:

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan says that “it is the power of unconditional love that gives us the resolve to uphold a person’s pride while acquiescing to their flaws and follies. The great paradox is by loving one’s ideal of God espied in a person, one helps that person to honor his/her real self.

“Therefore it is love that makes God a reality.”

–From “Keeping in Touch 114,” on the Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan website.

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Uma C.
  • Uma C. says
  • Mar 4, 2009 1:37 PM

Emerald is the light of the heart chakra, how true your name is. I love what you said. Uma

Emerald Jordan

Looked in the mirror, what did I see? A beautiful miracle staring back at me. I am a miracle, and I love using child-like faith when it comes to God. Halleujah... This is not a religious cultural disagreement, or agreement for that manner. Instead, it is a sincere, heart felt expression.

Donald L.

I hope you don't mind, but love must always be explained, and God needs none.

Indeed, all explanations of love fail, also.

God is descriptive, of the relationship people ought to have to one another -- that they love one another, for instance.

But, that is insufficient, for God so loves the world that He made, that He keeps on trying to tell people how simple it all is. "Look", He might be saying, "you don't have to feel all those negative things about other human beings. I made them all and I love them all. Your problem, if any, is to figure out how to love them, too, despite how you differ from them. Good luck, in that --- but remember, I love you, as You ought to love Me, too."

As for those who have mistaken Jesus for god, well, I forgive you. Now, will you please grow up.

Reni K.
  • Reni K. says
  • Feb 17, 2009 1:36 PM

Respectfully, Elizabeth, how do you know your god is a "he"?

judith S.

God is the soul of souls,forever indescribable ,the source of all "beingness".There is only one God and that God is the God of infinitude'of, all time ,space, and beyond;of unknown beings of infinite galaxies and dimensions forever;Wherever there is life ,and life is everywhere,that life is a manifestation of God. Thusly it is impossible that divinity should be limited to one expression of one culture not only under our sun but in all time,space, and dimensions. We do not possess souls, but rather are the dreams of our immortal souls who themselves are part of the infinite aliveness of God. Indeed we may say that truly, God is all that exists.Thusly, a limited definition of what is or isn't the true face of God comes from a time where our species saw itself in constant opposition to nature and the world around us. Human creativity and need created different cultures and in those times and places projected the image that their social evolutionary needs demanded upon the"All That Is". NOW A NEW TIME IS BEING BORN,EVEN AS WE SPEAK. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS WORLD ALL OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IS CONNECTED AND OPEN TO ITSELF . FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME THE PLANETARY MIND IS HAVING A DISCUSSION,ON THE CONSCIOUS LEVEL,OF OUR SPECIES PLACE IN THIS WORLD AND WHERE WE WOULD LIKE THE FUTURE TO GO FOR ALL BEINGS. In the name of rationality and in the spirit of loving compassion for the fears and foibles of all beings, let us at least leave religious,cultural,disagreements behind

Elizabeth Thompson

There is only one God and he sent his only
begotton son whose name is JESUS CHRIST !!
he is the creator of evey walk of life.

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