Paulo Coelho
It’s no use asking for explanations about God. You might hear lovely words, but deep down they are all empty phrases. Just as you can read a whole encyclopedia about love and not know what it is to love.
No-one is ever going to manage to prove that God exists, or that he doesn’t exist. Certain things in life were made to be experienced, but never explained.
One of these things is love. God - who is love - is another. Faith is a childish experience, in that magical sense that Jesus taught us: “The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the children.”
One of the three Arabian stories that follow speak of how innocent the search is:
Loving without fear
A pilgrim arrived at the village where Abu Yazid al-Bistrami lived.
- Teach me the quickest way to reach God.
Al-Bistrami answered:
- Love Him with all your strength.
- That I already do.
- Then you need to be loved by the others.
- But why?
- Because God looks at the hearts of all men. When He visits yours He will surely see the love you have for Him and He will be happy. However, if He also finds your name written with affection in the hearts of others, He will certainly pay far more attention to you.
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I like what you said El Dormido ” I can’t begin to imagine what it would be like if I ever become good at this. Hum seems to me you’ve got pretty well together.
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we must in order to see god and feel,we must live him…
try our best to live him in everything…
maybe it is somehow hard to explain and bring all those emotions and feelings inside to words..
but i can say that when i watch my bird sing,,i see God
when I see the sunset colors and swifting clouds I see him and feel him..
when I am blessed by a touch or the voice of my beloved I feel GOD as well…
for I believe that he has put in us a portion of himself..He ..the great soul has divided it and spread it upon us and all creatures on earth…
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Wonderful post. Simple and direct :)
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The human species is the only species on earth to have the intellectual capacity we have. Our intellect, asks how, why, where and when. We find these answers in science, and through physical material proof. Yet we believe in something beyond our intellectual capacity to explain, impossible to prove. We believe in the existence of god.
Not only do we seek intellectual fullfilment, but spiritual and emotional fullfilment as well. Our way to finding god is through spirituality. I think we find spirituality when we are one with love, joy and even pain. That oneness, that connectedness with our heart leads to god, whatever god may be.
I also think the biblical, religious concepts of god, can create more fear and doubt through the personification of god and his power and demands. How many wars have been fought in the name of religion or god?
I often think that without these religious concepts we would find god much more readily. Our intellect wouldn’t have to battle with what in the bible seems so illogical. We would find god without the fear of having sinned, without the fear of doubting the truth of religion. We would more naturally and readily open our hearts feel.
When we find god through our hearts, we become the people of the love, that god is all about without fear.
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I don’t know God even I haven’t seen, as every one
Love & fear are the emotions,
Usually relate to some thing
As he is the feeling ……..for me…….
Believing on him might be impossible for me because, I always love those who love me, help me, spend time for me share things with me, (my inside child always argue with these thoughts)
He might punish me if I said these words again …………..He is Most Power full, THE MIGHTY LOARD ,OR MAKE MY LIFE HARDER TO SPEND OR HELL NO ,NO WAY…………….FORGIVE ME PLEASE………..God(my Mature ,social inner self).
BUT I GIVE, MY SELFTO YOU,
IN YOUR SUBMISSION,
CAUSE, OF
MARTYRDOM OF PROPHET’S GRAND SON IMAM HUSSAIN (A.S)……
ONLY.
I NEITHER EXPLAIN NOR DESIDE YOUR EXISTANCE …
EVEN THOUGHT I’VE A STRONGE FEELING INSIDE …………
GOD IS LOVE,AND CARE,IS GOD ……. (My soul)
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dream of love
learn to love someone like you and you
fight for your love
Understand what your partner says
the real fear is never love someone
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Faith is an idea, but it is also a feeling that makes you feel ’sure’ of the existence of God, of the ethereal and the spiritual world. Faith and Love cannot be described or expressed by words. Love has no boundaries! It resides in our hearts and it is the reason for .. us desiring to transcend our limited bodily existence and become .. immortal, to become and feel again complete, to be the Light, the Sun that shines for everyone, without .. discrimination.
We are humans, so we need, we long, we desire our love to be .. returned, to be ‘reciprocal’, to feel love and be loved. Otherwise, we may have all the riches of the world and the whole ‘knowledge’, but without ourselves being in other people’s hearts, we are the loneliest and poorest people on earth.
LOVE,
Thelma
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many signs today again, freedom and trust,something simple.we are free and god give us his trust.when we give joyce and peace in heart and our minds,we get love,no doubt about this freedom.
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I love this post.
In my life I know that there are two rules of the “Loving without fear” theory. And these are the thing that I keep continue learning to do everyday.
They are:
- “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” [Mathew 22:37]
- “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” [Mathew 22:39]
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Love is the common and very simple term. It has no meaning but again it means a lot. It is the symbol of affection, care, togetherness, self-emotions and many more.
As you said, Paulo ! The love for God should be fearless, the love of other people is only that matters.
My point is that- I do not have point. I do not know if I believe in God or not but one thing I surely know from the saying of Edison that,
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me—the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love—He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us—nature did it all—not the gods of the religions.”
I do not have any idea if there exits a god or not, I do not know ! But again, when I am feeling down and unhappy when my words are not making any sense I go deeper into my own caves and try to find the answer why not ? I ask with this best friend of mine who is inside me all the time. I do not know if those who believe in God call this best man inside them as “God” ?
Whoever, it is I am happy that I only have one. There are people who have many friends, but for me the outer world has friends and all of them are best. I do not want to differentiate. I do not want to make any difference by stating who right and who is wrong. I do not want to say that, this person is best and the other is worse. I only see- all of my friends as the best !
I am not sure if tomorrow I will be recognized by the people as “Santosh Kalwar” or will they forget me after certain time frame. I do not even care about that but, wait a moment- life is just like that, we are here on this mother earth for some purpose and every individual has the purpose to fulfill.
As I can see- you have been doing loads of writing and you are the one of the great author of the books. I am inspired by your ideas and creation.
In my first self-publish book I have mention one chapter which states that- “My comments on Paulo Coelho’s blog.” All those comments that I have posted on this blog are availaible on this book. I do not use this for marketing purpose but I use these comments simply because these are useful to those who would like to learn and read. As time goes and life moves in more sluggish path.
I do not see if God exits or not but whatever be the circumstances, life goes on and I hope I will be able to make those who are around me remember with my names and I often do not forget them. !
Cheers ! :)
-Author of the book “Nature God”
http://www.amazon.com/Nature-God-Santosh-Kalwar/dp/1435760913
http://www.kalwar.com.np
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I read so many things…and I love it when I read something that makes me say: ah! Something so simple as this..explains SO much. It makes me think about my own life and to when I am the happiest. It’s true..if you have good people around you, who want the best for you..the best will reach you. That’s why you should distance yourself from people who are a bad influence on you.
Love Saadia, Holland
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http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/god/ here is my view on God,hope you don’t mind me posting a like here :)
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I remember practicing “present moment” meditation sititng on the couch on the front porch.
It was about spring with a cup of coffee and a cigarette in hand. I would sit there with as much a silent mind as possible listening to the world.
As I allowed my thoughts to quiet inside, the sounds of the morning rose up and filled my awareness. Bird song, wind through the trees, all the things that occupy the silence.
And a sense of Presence seemed to preside then, in that moment, and it felt like Love, unconditional Love, Love just existent.
Since then I have been through some things that give the sense that love flows through the interconnectedness of all things.
When I am able to be still, as I was sitting on the couch, that binding fabric of love seems like it holds all existence together within its embrace in a seamless tapestry of life. That unity seems to emerge from the subtlty to the perceptible.
It is a powerful force that can become recognizable and utile.
One morning I was at the bus stop and felt a knot of fear, anxiety and worry grippin my heart. I intenionally breathed awares of my heart chakra, breathing out that fear\anxiety\worry, and breathing in the power of love, that perceptible force.
I have played around with breathing meditation and chakra awareness in the sense of moving my conscious awareness up and down beginning at the base of the spind the upwards through the chakra centers during inhalation, with a specific gesture of openess at the heart.
I find I often, through the day, have to reach out for conscious contact with God, seeking attunement to God’s nature, trying to sense how best to implement God’s will through spiritual principles, outside of my ego, personality, understanding, habitual modes of feeling, thinking, and action in order to be most immediately effective and conscously aware of my actions.
I really need to do this so that the various aspects of my personality can be held in check in order for me to constructively deal with a preswent situation and circumstance beyond my arrogance, insecurity, vanity, fear, pride, anxiety and self-obsession.
As I loosen the grip of that fear and anxiety, and all those attendent feelings, from around my heart I actively reach out, making a conscious decision to do so, for that same sense of presence, peace, release and unity that I felt sitting on the porch in silence, that power of love, as it were, to use it to clear my path of all self-obstruction and move forward with clarity.
I really hate that phrase, “power of love”, ’cause I can’t help visualizing a very large Buddy Miles behind the drum kit for Hendrix’ Band of Gypsies singing that phrase and then scatting behind it, plus all those other associations from hippiedom and I don’t know what else.
But the fact of it has become compelling for me. I can find life in the self-less moment of surrender to a silence which can allow that presence to rise up and become effective in my life, to give heft and bite to my attempt to live by spiritual principles without self-centered motivations, manipulations, baggage and fear.
You know, I am not real skilled at meditation or sustaining silence in my mind but, still, as long as I make an effort in that direction, express the willingness to do so to my God, I do experience the benefits of peace and freedom in the moment. I can’t begin to imagine what it would be like if I ever became good at this….
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Good post. Yes, we’re all here together.
Take care,
Uku
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Thanks,I need that story.Very nice ,with simple words does explain so abstract feelings as Love,Faith.
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Most importantly our love should be whole hearted and free of the need for reciprocity… however when it is returned… all the better…;) Love, makes the world go round, Paul
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