Since 1989, when I did my second pilgrimage, I discovered the feminine face of God. But for most religions, God is a man.
I believe that God has a masculina and a feminine face, rigor and compassion. So, I’d like to hear your opinion on The Feminine Face of God, or The Goddess.
Thank you!
Paulo
DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR ENGLISH. BUT IF YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, POST IN YOUR MOTHER TONGUE (PORTUGUES, ESPANOL, FRANÇAIS, ETC.).
I firmly believe that if we as male and female are all indeed created in the image of God, then God must indeed have a male as well as a female face.
I am convinced that God is beyong self and therefore one can not speak of God as he or she, altough we do and thus saying she or he doesnt really matter. What one thinks is masculine and feminine might be subjective and not necesseraly true. It says alot though about mans dominance over women when God is allways refered to as HE in the Quran, Bible, Talmud etc but not as she. :-)
Truth is beyond self. You can not understand God nor experience God. :-) But you can come to understand that there is A truth.
God is both male and female. God is the action and reaction.
We are a part of God so we are male or female nothing more and nothing les.
And thats wy we need to know our female or male side.
Thats wy you need both to reproduce life, only God is able to create life from one.
So is God teacher and pupil, God is everywhare, thats wy God is both in all things, becouse its God.
Thats wy we have to find our own path to light, to be a better man, respect the other and haere what God is telling us in the silent moments of life.
i hope this is read by the amazing Paulo Coelho
I think God is neither female or male
he is not to be labeled he has no sexual identity
although we say he
it is only a figure of speech
but God is beyond the ideas of male or female
our mind tends to label things from our perspective
God is not to be a certain sex
God was not born
God will never die
God is like the light and love neither female nor male
God is the creator of all the love placed in all the mothers’ hearts
so he has more supply of love and mercy than this galaxy
and he created man
God is everything
it is easier to love God than to classify him
God is great and everything else fades
Mankind was created in the image of God, they were created male and female. It takes both male and female to reflect the nature of God. God has no physical gender, but His qualities are masculine and feminine. God the Father is masculine and the Shekinah Glory of God is feminine. The Shekinah Glory is the part of God that inhabits the earthly creation and is also known as the Holy Spirit. Jews and early Christians recognized this and I have documented it in “The Holy Spirit: The Feminine Nature of God.” I also discuss the societal influence this misunderstanding has had.
I have found some very interesting things about this subject…I DO believe that God IS masculine AND feminine. The Bible says “God created man in HIS IMAGE, MALE AND FEMALE created He them” (in His image). He is a perfect God and the Original man/Adam was created perfect until he sinned.
But to digress, the original Biblical translation of “the SPIRIT (that) moved upon the face of the waters” during the Creation of the world was a feminine noun. If a person was really interested, they could study the original translations of the Holy Scriptures and would find much about the feminine side of God’s Spirit.
The Spirit of God gave LIFE to our earth and also brought forth ALL that was needed to nurture and sustain our life on the physical level– a very feminine attribute.
Jesus Christ said that we would receive a “Comforter”. The Comforter/Spirit of God was to intermingle with OUR spirit to nurture, guide, comfort, encourage, reprove,to give us peace, joy, love, hope and spiritual life…all those things a MOTHER does.Of course God’s spirirt is also Male…He is not limited, in the least, to only sharing his feminine spirit.
A note about God’s Trinity- God the FATHER, God the SON, God the Mother … not only were WE made in His image but also the family was as well! Praise Him for His generousity and goodness :)
Beautifully put!
Thank you for this – I was looking for kind words to pass on to a zealous brother who believes that God can only be reached through the Bible and whose narrowness of belief, and ultimate sadness of life is proscribed by his inability to recognise the fundamental truth that God transcends our understanding – or would not be God – and that God loves all creation, no matter where or when we were born. We seek to find that which we have already been given as a free gift – the eternal promise of God within us!
I think God is neither. Good is all loving, all compassionate, but I wouldn’t attribute those qualities to just a female. I think God is greater than male or female, and cannot even be described in human terms. The true God is greater than the most terrible human flaw and greater than the most beautiful human virtue.
god doesn’t look like any thing we know ….so we cant imagine ..what is it or where is he now………our job is just believe…….because god not like us ..and the rules that we know about this world ……every thing must have male and female cant apply in god ……not in this simple ………..
does god really have to be a man or a woman? does god really need to have a gender? god is both firm and compassionate… attributes of man and a woman… does he really need to be classified for us to believe? is it necessary in our faith???
A good question. In one sense it does not matter if we, and our society, accept each person as valuable and equal. But if men view themselves as somehow superior and women view themselves as less than men, then it is helpful to see both genders in God. It prevents a male dominance that is harmful to women.
Goddess of course! The Universe is beautiful, wise, vain and tempestuous yet clinically efficient. So, it is feminine!
What about other awful things which happends in our world???Is it really beautiful things…Some times our God does good(beautiful) things and some times God does bad things in order to teach us! In my opinion it is not so important who is GOD!Anyway God is God!
Dear Paulo,
It’s lovely that we see the differences between male and female and honour them. It’s lovely that people join a religious group that feels closest to their heart. But surely they are all connected. This ‘one’ then. That is present for all the other lifeforms on all the other planets. In all forms of male and female. I don’t believe in a masculine or feminine face of god, it’s a feeling inside that is both, and so powerful yet it is soft and makes me smile. With understanding. Like you and your writing/soul. I don’t think of you as masculine or feminine.
I only think you are trying to do something good. And I FEEL you are.
Thank you.
Roops
ＴＯ ＤＥＡＲ ＰＡＵＬＯ ＣＯＥＬＨＯ ：
我從來不知道神的性別 (SEX)
但每當我內心有個聲音
它叫我要原諒他人
我也不知道自己是不是基督徒
因為我對於上教堂很懶惰
沒有很虔誠
但是在大學時代與工作的第一年
身邊一直都有基督徒朋友
住院時，朋友送我一個小天使吊飾
讓我感動到如今
現在~我的內心仍然有個聲音
就是追求夢想、原諒別人
即使很受傷
只要想著未來無限好的美景
讓自己的心 安靜下來
無論遭遇到啥麼事情
總有股力量 支持你走下去
我很喜歡你的書
你也讓我走出人生的一些陰霾
GOOD BLESS YOU ！
GINA
I think that the gender is not important but faith is.
Alla
http://www.allasobirova.com
Well.
If I would tell to a cow to decribe the God according to what she imagines, I bet that it would be God looking like a cow. So it would be with any other living thing. So it is with us. Becaus ewe believe ourselves to be the most developed thing in the world. So how should the God look lik,e if not like one of us?
The church was for long ruled, and seems like it still is, by males. As one saying says- where the devil can not come, he sends a woman. (Also the devil is him, funny isnt it?)Woman was always believed to be weaker than a man, even the source of evil and sin. If the God created us according to himself, that means that he- in the 1st place- is not perfect,because we arent. And in the 2nd, that he is either hermafrodit, or there are two elements in him/her/it- both masculine and feminine (And so, like most of the people, has more faces and so we can connect to the one we are closer to) I mzslef am not certain in this question. Becasue every timne I try to come up with a conlucion, there pop up evn more questions that before. It is like never ending circle. Although it might be supposed to be like it. Because if people would know everything, they may forget to ask questions, and so forget to live with a passion coming from speculating.
Sorry if I offended anyone’s faith.
BH
I read somewhere “A man needs to act in the Universe, a woman holds the Universe inside of her”.
This made me think about the faces of God. Entities in that statement and relations between them. Man, woman, Universe.
The quoted sentence rang true to me. Although I can see how people can find reasons to discuss whether it is offensive to one sex or the other.
The important part is not the content – the what. The male face, some would say, contains ethics, strength… the female compassion, tenderness… The most important thing is the relation – the how. And the answer is “by Love”.
There are many faces of God.
But God always acts with Love.
in Love,
Emona:)
p.s. I disagree that Love is an attribute of only the female face of God. I think Love is of a different nature. It is pure. It connects the entities, it is from God. It is the original liaison. The Universe built with such a liaison is in perfect harmony.
This is all written in my humble opinion. I don’t know if it makes much sense since it is very late and I am very tired:)
DIOS ES AMOR,COMPRENSION,SABIDURIA,BONDAD DIOS ES TODO EL NOS CREO Y EL NOS CUIDA COMO A SU REBAÑO SEA HOMBRE SEA MUJER EL MIRA POR NOSOTROS EN TODO MOMENTO Y NO PODEMOS DISCUTIR SU AMOR POR EL MUNDO TANTO QUE ENVIO A SU HIJO UNICO A MORIR, POR LA SALVACION DEL MUNDO
Hi Paulo!
First – Fank you for your books!
Secondly – English is not my mother tongue and thats why I’ll write in russian.
Пауло, Ваши книги читают по всему миру, в том числе, и в России…
Лично для меня Ваши книги – большое открытие, потому что, читая их, я как будто обретаю знание, которое всегда знала, как будто оно было и есть во мне, но за него было не ухватиться. Это, прежде всего, конечно, касается Женского лика Бога. Мне это знание видится естественным, вытекающим из самой природы Жизни и Человека, ведь только вместе Мы, две половинки, Мужчина и Женщина по-настоящему можем быть Счастливы. Поэтому, конечно, и Бог наш – это и Мужчина и Женщина…
А самое Главное – я поняла, что многое, что я чувствую и над чем порой ломаю голову – вполне естественно и что это говорит во мне Женщина. Спасибо Вам за то, что помогли мне открыть в себе Женщину…
Спасибо Вам за Ваши книги, которые буквально открывают глаза…
Thank you,
Olga.
Valentina is my Russian webmaster, living in Vladivostok (Suphi lives in Istambul)
Dear Paulo,
I recently discovered your writings in a book shop when my hand alightened on a copy of the Alchemist. I read half the book in the book shop and knew it was speaking to the part of the World Soul that is within me. For the story of Narcisist has been following me around. In 2007 I had a series of dreams which I took to many elders within the African community. Eventually a very senior African Priest told me that the Goddess was calling me to her. I was give a very ancient West African Title Crown of The Mothr which is encapsulated by the titltles: “Mother who Heals with Cool Water” and “Mother Who Mends the World”. I actually felt that such titles were more a burden than a help to my life. However, a most fantastical journey began when I was instructed to simply “go to water” and pray. It seemed strange but that is what I did. I gathered a small group of people and prayed to water and gave thanks to it. Afterwards I began to receive many messages from the Mother and revelations which I followed up through research. Many pieces of a jig saw to do with the Mother energy was revealed to me. I have documented two years of revelations. What I now have is a missing Goddess code which includes the knowledge of how all the Goddess from West Africa to India to Japan are connected. Within these revelations is the key to help the world heal itself. I have been wanting to write this information up. I have authored two books (under the middle part of my name Ezolaagbo and surname Achikeobi). I have two more coming out. But this is besides the point. They are non fiction and yet I feel that The Mother would like what is a real life story fictionalized. If you are interested in this story ( I have many pictures, doucmentation and videos of the journey) please let me know. I actually came across this blog by “accident”. I just finished reading the ALchemist last night and decided to find out more information about this author, soul traveller who has moved my life. I was shocked at the topic I saw, because the concept of the Mother God has been following me around and is bursting for me to release the information. Thank you for everything. May the Mother continue to look after you in all that you do. I am from the UK, lived in the Caribbean and now live in the United States. :)
God is male if you are also,
God is female if you are too,
God is in us if we want to believe,
Furthermore can be anything else what you want it to be,
God is yours as you want,
Best regards,
OMG!!! I can’t believe it- I have this precious opportunity to be heard by you, dear Paolo, my hero, Warrior of the Light!
Firstly, I would like to begin with the words of deepest apreciations for your creations, virtually by which I ‘ve been forced to believe in myself, into the Life I obtain, and surmount almost all the obstacles on my way… and thank you for landing the seeds of kindness, charity and true love into my heart…
As for feminine face of God- I think most precisely the theme has been discussed in “11 minutes” book… Actually, I admitted myself as a women (even quite a young-I am 18, and you know… I have been brought up in the strict manners of beahviour, which crucially affected my personality and the way I am. The part of goddess is in everyone and even pretty masculine machoes have it.
PS: We are keen on your books, we need in your books and kind advices- please never give up writing, you’re a true Magician!!!
Sincerely,
Noor
God is a woman. God is a man. god is an adult. god is a child.
God is all of these and none of these at the same time…
One thing I know for sure…that when women
themselves embrace the goddess aspect, & when men embrace the Goddess aspect more the world will be a better place, a much better place…
For this aspect is sadly neglected in our world…
Long Live the feminine face of god!!!!
My music and I ( oh Fancy! I am writing that as if they were separate!!!) celebrate this goddess aspect every day
and if you like to hear more of that goddess worship you can hear it at http://www.myspace.com/katharinegoldsbrough
How I love Paulo for bringing such issues up!
I don’t believe God is only man. I was told so when I was a child but it was enough to me just to give a look to the nature to be sure that all those beautiful details haven’t come out from nothing. They look fragile, attractive and beautiful. First I started thinking that God must be a very talented artist so he could be able to create woman and such beauties. Then I started to see Love. What was it all about, and where i did find most. Woman.
I m not trying to make differentiations, but just giving my point of view on this. Let just recall how man and woman used to behave when there was no civilization, and which element still predominates in their characters.
MAN has a cool and clear REASONEMENT
WOMAN fills everything with LOVE
Now I m not saying that a man can’t love or a woman can’t be intelligent, luckily now days we’ve had enough proofs and have seen a lot on the situation. Anyway deep inside that is our nature. And mind and heart are meant to be together just like man and woman, just like both faces of god. His feminine and masculine face.
Just like everyone of us has it. We all have a feminine and masculine face inside of us, it is just that one predominates the other, so that we can get attracted to our opposite.
I always say that we get attracted to what we call opposite, because it has something in common with us, otherwise we would just be different and there would be no attraction, there would be nothing in there. I believe that God has written this everywhere.
Paulo I believe you like nature a lot, so just give a look to a tree or better to an osier. When at first its branches full of leaves will give you a beautiful image of that creation, you will suddenly discover the strength of its bole, no fragility in there. But if you go closer and give a better look to it too, you will see its beautiful decorations, written on its “skin”, and then if you will check the leaves, they wont look that fragile anymore.
You can see his both faces always together. If we just open our minds and forget to tell our brain about what he should be looking at.
A few months ago a friend of me, showed me a recorded video that somebody else gave to him. I got terrified and marveled at once.
THERE WERE TWO EYES SHOWING UP FROM THE SKY LOOKING TO THE EARTH. I LOOKED AT EYES VERY CAREFULLY. THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL, JUST LIKE A WOMAN’S EYES WOLD BE AND AT THE SAME TIME EXPRESSIVE LIKE A MAN’S EYES. THEY HAD THE SAME SHAPE BUT THE LEFT ONE LOOKED MORE LIGHTED THAN THE RIGHT ONE, IT SEEMED LIKE IT WEIGHTED THE LESS THAN THE OTHER.
That has happened in Russia years ago. I don’t really know how many.
Anyway, that was the biggest proof to me about God’s nature. First I believed, and now I know. Every detail was so meaningful to me.
LEFT AND RIGHT
LOVE AND REASON
WOMAN AND MAN
A pity that they always try to divide and cause confusion. Nature is all beautiful. God gives us pictures of himself everywhere. HE/SHE HAS WRITTEN HIM/HER SELF EVERYWHERE.
Born and raised catholic, so there is a lot of male dominancy, in the religion, at church, in the bible (going from father to son) and family setting (father being the head of the family, the final say). Am so far from saying that Catholic religion does not see woman as important, they do, but am talking about dominance. After many thinking and observation, I look at myself and woman around me, and I see all the miracles we experience!!! We go through body change, than child birth to body change again, this might be all physical but the emotional and spiritual growth is not seen but is present. Just going through the motion of having life growing within us, and giving the child food from our own body, can you imagine two spirits, souls and body living within one as one. Our inner self and emotion and being is so intimate, yet strong. I tell you this no man will experience or fully understand that miracle of woman. To create a woman, to put her the way she is, The God that created her sees and understands her. Not one who would dominate her world with male presence but one who will create her to survive it. So Yes I do SO much understand when you say The Feminine Face of God. After reading your books, I start missing the Mother and how I miss praying to her, I feel she understands me I can share with her things that others won’t understand
Why do we try to explain infinity using very human emotions or descriptions? Agreed it makes more sense to do so, but I’d rather think of a god who is ageless, sexless and beyond all comprehension. A being so vast and immense that it watches us with mild amusement. A being that feels no emotion, because that is something that only us humans have.
God
It’s strange that God doesn’t mind expressing Himself/Herself in all the religions of the world, while
people still cling to the notion that their way is the only right way. Whatever you try to say about
God, someone will take offense, even if you say everyone’s love of God is right for them.
For me the form God takes is not the most important thing. What’s most important is the essence.
My songs and dances are outlines for Him to come in and fill. I hold out the form. She puts in the
sweetness.
I’ve looked up at the night sky and beheld the stars so intimately close, it was as if my grandmother
had made them for me. “How rich, how sumptuous,” I thought. In that moment I saw God in His
creation. I could as easily have seen Her in the beauty of a rainbow, the grace of a deer bounding
through a meadow, the truth of a father’s kiss. But for me the sweetest contact with God has no
form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation
embraces me. We are one.
Michael Jackson / Dancing The Dream
The divine is the unfathomable source of all opposites, of all our opinions and non-opinions. I treasure the feminine aspect of the divine, and seek to find a bridge to our common island along the theme of parenting. Perhaps “God” is really a marker, like a variable in an unsolvable algebra equation. For more on this see “By the Grace of X” ( http://tiny.cc/69Ibb )
Namaste
When I first read your book, “the zahir” the concept of a female God was mentioned several times…and since it was something sooo different from what you hear everyday it honestly bothered me a little. I guess, anything that is very different from what you are used to always causes discomfort at first. But then it got me thinking and it really does make sense. According to the religion I was born into (Islam), God has so many charecteristics and it is not mentioned once that God is necessarily a man. I guess since in our culture, men are more dominant and have more control in the society, it is just presumed that God is a man as well.
God combine both faces and character. God/Goddess show us the way of Love and living with purpose true masculine and feminine values. There are moments in life we have to take action (masculine) and there are moments we have to keep balance and support (feminine). Goddess is beauty but how she will know that if there are no God to adore her…
I really love this, so wise…and deep
GOD is in da form of both da genders , dats da reason he created both man n woman , nd understand them well , inrespect of man or woman , every1 is equal , is just dat da human have created da differences in da rights n equality , which every1 is observin is so slowly fading off !!
Hola Paulo
Acabo de leer el libro de a orillas del rio piedra me sente y llore y me dejo bastante sorprendida..pero tambien con una gran duda.
La duda que me dejo fue que si Dios nos hizo a su imagen y semejanza y nosotros solo somos seres humanos no perfectos y Dios es perfecto,como podemos ser a su imagen y semejanza? por otro lado si tiene un lado femenino y de asi ser es la Inmaculada Concepcion de Maria..porque es ella? y no otra como la Medalla Milagrosa o alguna otra Virgen?
I was brought up an Anglican so for a long time there was no doubt as to God’s ‘gender’. My predominant view of God was the old testament angry and vengeful deity. I walked on eggshells with him. His chosen people were Jews and I’m black!
I went to a catholic high school and we had to say catholic prayers to the virgins and saints. I learned how to say the rosary and I have to admit I found myself more and more inclined to talk to Mary than God the father or Jesus.
I felt I could identify more with Mary than the male Gods (trinity), but at the back of my mind my anglican upbringing told me the male trinity would punish me for worshipping Mary but somehow I also had the feeling that she’d protect me, very freudian.
The male trinity, in my view, wanted order at the cost of my happiness. Mary was an infinite ocean of love that provided solace and cared for me as her child. It wasn’t prescribed, but sometimes I asked her to forgive me for my sins and I felt she was more lenient. On some level I believed she could make the trinity change his/their mind. The period of time I was ‘devoted’ to her was the most fulfilling religious experience I ever had. I felt like I was in contact with the divine, albeit with some guilt for not communing directly with God.
It is always by Marie that one is conducted to Jesus and the Father , if you met Marie , you’ll meet also the kindness and Mercy of God , because all it is only one .
I too was raised Anglican. As a child however, I was never able to reconcile myself to the maleness of God. I kept this to myself yet in the quiet of the night I began my conversations with God and SHE always gave me the answers and support I needed. Today, after long searching for what God means to me, I am content to know that God lives in me and around me everyday. I just finished the Witch of Portobello and was very much inspired by the story. I will continue to search for the feminine side of God, the Goddess, and to understand what it means to be totally in her embrace.
(I have written a lot about this on your blog earlier. Some way I can find this somewhere?)
Wisdom: divine origin, of feminine nature, privileged to be present at the creation of the world, besides God as his craftsman. His delight day by day, herself finding delight in the sons of men.
He who finds her, finds life, he who keeps her ways finds happiness. Always present, always inviting to the banquet, in her house with the seven columns. (Proverb chapter 8 and 9)
When the Word becomes flesh and dwells amongst us, the image of God and His Spirit are present…to make whole what is broken.
Hi, Paulo!
Few years ago we met in Tardes. I am Croatian journalist and I came there to do an interview. We did it while walking around Tardes and it was great expierence for me.
Regarding your theme:
Word “God” is a masculine word in Croatian (Bog). So, God is “He”, as well as Father, and Son and also the Holy Spirit.
I was raised as a Catholic, even wanted to be a priest and spent 4 years in Seminary.
It’s interesting, I never thought about it before. But, God’s gender never seemed to be an issue for me. Maybe I was blessed by some spiritual experiences that gave me very personal, almost intimate feeling and the sense of God. So, for me, masculinity of his name was always irrelevant. I always had a feeling (I deliberately avoid to use expression “imagined”) of God as somebody, as St. Paul said, completely out of reach of all our human measures, prejudices, genders, descriptions, metaphors… At the same time without gender or sex, and containing all genders and sexes.
That’s why it’s also strange idea to me to think or to talk about “masculine” or “feminine” side or face of God. You probably had to find his feminine face sooner or later because you were raised to imagine him with a masculine face.
For me, God was always all at once. Just like melody and harmony in musical contrapunct.
Thank you very much for giving me this unexpected impulse for this small meditation.
I wish you all the best, and a lot of both masculine and feminine blessings :)
Yours,
Branimir
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Beautiful white butterflies…
Thank you, Maja.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Hi Paulo,
I would like you to do some research on Ardhanaree form of God in Hinduism. ‘Ardhanaree’ literally translates to ‘half-woman’. Also, Hinduism has a lot of goddesses which is worth some learning. Knowledge (goddess-Saraswathi), Wealth (goddess-Lakshmi), so on.
DISCLAIMER: I am no preacher of any religion, just sharing what is relevan to the topic.
Estimado Paulo:
He leído todos tus libros. Especialmente, “El guerrero de la luz” es mi favorito. ¡Felicidades por el bien que haces con tus escritos y por este foro!.
Cuando los discípulos le preguntaron a Jesucristo: “¿quién eres?”, El respondió: “YO SOY EL QUE SOY”.
En mi opinión, Dios es lo Absoluto, es todo y nada a la vez, no tiene cara, sexo, personalidad … es la ausencia de ego o forma. Dios no es esto o lo otro. Simplemente ES. Es la esencia, es la conciencia sin límites (sabiduría), es la fuente de AMOR Y COMPASIÓN. AMOR Y COMPASIÓN sin objeto. Nosotros somos semejantes a Dios, por tanto, llevamos en nosotros la esencia divina. Lo que queda cuando quitamos todas las capas de la personalidad que hemos necesitado para vivir en este mundo tridimensional. Nosotros también somos la fuente de AMOR, SOMOS LA CONCIENCIA INFINITA.
God is the one who is unborn.” And “Human can go against the inner world’s path of consciousness, and then can reach to the one world – who is unborn.
Our consciousness’s HOMETOWN.
Only Light exists there and can hear the voice there.
Our cosciousness’s hometown is world of the Light and world of the Voice.
Human can awake a inner hidden world’s power.
There is a hidden powerful masculine energy in a woman.
Of course, reverse I think there is a hidden powerful faminine energy in a man.
So, a well-integrating person expresses masculine power and faminine power properly.
Faminine power provides mother’s love(power of healing, mother’s warm breast, earth mother, compassion, care, mercy, adaptability etc.) and masculine power(vigor, progressive spirit, agression, advancing power etc.)
Mother’s love within oneself is a power which keeps an individual further a society.
When an individual moves toward her dreams, the masculine power is needed.
A Violência no Rio esta forte hein Paulo…Como podemos ajudar a construir um mundo de paz? Como semear amor em todo o planeta e banir a violencia do globo ou pelo menos diminui-la? Quanta barbaridade a nossa volta o tempo todo!
Abrações grandes!
Querido Paulo, no puedo creerlo! Hace poco terminé de leer “A orillas del río Piedra me senté y lloré” y ahí describias, entre otras cosas, la cara femenina de Dios. Pasando por webs aleatorias, me encontré con tu blog y justamente con esto (es más con el cartel sobre las distintas lenguas debajo) y me sorprendió mucho la coincidencia.
Para mi Dios es hombre y mujer, o no es ni hombgre ni mujer, es asexuado, es un espíritu, es Amor en toda su expresión.
Aunque sospecho algo, no sé porque siempre identificas a estas caras de Dios los atributos de Rigor y Misericorida, puesto que podrías ver otros como el Amor, el Temor de Dios, Su Sabiduría, etc.
No se si hablaría a la Diosa, como una separación del propio Dios.
Mucha suerte a todos, y Paulo, me encantan tus libros.
Saludos
Entiendo que Dios tiene sus propios límites.
El rigor es lo que demostramos a los demás por fuera, mientras por dentro tenemos misericordia. Tenemos que tener nuestros límites y saber ponerle límites a los demás.
Caríssimo Paulo,
Primeiramente gostaria de dizer que a muito venho seguindo seus escritos, sejam livros ou publicações em jornais. Parte do meu gosto pela leitura e pela processo de escrever (Até então fragmentos de livros) deve-se a seus escritos e obras. Desde já obrigado!
Mas vamos ao tema central deste comentário: “A face feminina de Deus”! Durante dois anos eu fiz uma experiência de profunda e ininterrúpta relação com Deus (Algo que estou escrevendo no presente momento)! Percebi que muito mais que um gênero, Deus é “algo”, ou “alguém” (para alguns), transcendental, amorfo, assexuado. Acredito que enquadrar Deus não vai bem nem como uma figura masculina, nem feminina. Para mim, “Ele” apenas É! Quando “damos nome”, simplificamos e enquadramos um conceito em algo dificil de se expandir! Daí minha preocupação de “entendê-lo”, até como homem.
Deus, para mim, é uma representação de tudo que há de belo/feio, doce/amargo, bom/ruim, homem/mulher, etc… que há! Daí qualquer que seja sua manifestação, tal qual sentimos, isto entendo por Deus. Um olhar, um perfume, um toque, uma brisa leve, um sentimento, ecc.
Olhe a seu redor, vês uma mulher? Eis a face feminina de Deus diante de ti.
Gostei muito do seu comentário
The Goddess recognizes God.
Lately, my husband’s expression is “My God Woman!”.. this makes me think that perhpas, without realizing it, he actually believe that God is a woman ;)…
Having thought on ” the female face of God “, it only came to mind me ” the one and the numerous “. For me, there is not prédéfini type. We are at the same time man and woman in our manner of being. Historically in christian culture, woman to ask not for ” the good face ” but in other cultures, she has all her place. She gives birth to the mystery of life and perhaps because of it, certain masculine complexes were made day also. man and woman in our manner of being. The same is true of in nature. When I look at nature around me, I use happiness that it gives me it doesn’t much matter the face which she wants to show me. My breathing is his.
From a spiritual point of view, I think that creed is a very personal way and that the reasons which push us towards creed are numerous because ourselves have numerous facets.
Bueno yo creo que Dios tiene dos caras tanto como de hombre y de mujer, porque el hombre no es nada si esta solo al igual que la mujer, para mi los dos tienen que estar en perfecta armonia y sintonia para poder hacer funcionar el mundo correctamente, porque no hay distincion entre nosotros porque somos uno solo, al igual que Dios.
Well this is a nice topic to discuss about..
In my religion (I am a Muslim), we believe that God does not have a gender..We never use he or she for God..God is the one who is unborn and does not give a birth.The one and only..
But in Anatolia since we have a history for thousands years before we became Muslims our ancestors were believing that God has a feminine face so they were a matrilineal society..They were putting women at top, respecting and listening..Besides women were deciding for family or governmental issues..Ahhh those were the days :D
Hi, Sitare!
“God is the one who is unborn.” And “Human can go against the inner world’s path of consciousness, and then can reach to the one world – who is unborn.”
Mother’s love within an indivisul is a power which keeps an individual further a society. But, I think when an individual moves toward her dreams, the masculine power is needed.
Which one is more important?
Creo que el género en nosotros, creaturas, es no un accidente biológico, sino una característica únicamente. En Dios, si creemos en su infinita perfección, ambos aspectos, femineidad y masculinidad, se hacn unos solo, una sola escencia. Es más, creo que nuestra alma, desnuda de cuerpo, está más allá de identificarse con un género especifico.
God has a man`s expression in religion as due to the old testament books .- a man gives a start to all and everything. a man is the Creator. Goddess is a separate notion. She was made by the creator-God-to man. She let him see the things he couldnt dare to, about himself. Goddess has the Insight.God -man and Goddess-woman were in pure devotion to one another, knowing the Creator`s face and all of His Essence, till they got to know the so-called “forbidden fruit” which is literally,-”the intimate knowledge”.They didnt give it a time to learn with pure hearts the true intention of the Creator,etc but did it violently following ..whatever called “evil” or hunger for “instant pleasure”. while, the Creator Himself is very multifaceted..He is the Cosmos, the everlasting knowledge, the depth of the living process, thus He cant be that personified..cause the Creator can be all and everything as He is the very life itself. at the same time i can say, the notion of sacred parenting has greater sacred meaning here..
well,, i believe God is one,, no male or female,, God created us with so much diversity, and that is one of God’s numerous miracles ,
All the beauty qualities,, that we have each individual on his own,, example,, a strong brave man, a senstive delicate female,, God created strengh , bravery, senstivity, delicacy,, God created all the nouns, and God has it all.
NB
i resisted to right he alot,, as i am used to,, but on thinking of it, its part of the language slavery.
Dear Paulo,
If we look to the ways of the natural world, we find that everything is in balance. There is not one, single dominating force. Look to some of the most ancient cultures, who used nature to find balance. The Chinese created the concept of ying and yang. Both of the elements have different characteristics but together they find balance. How can we assume that God is either male or female? Our entire world would not be balanced if one sex outweighed the other. We equally depend upon each other for strength, continuance, and inner peace. We are all connected.
Thank You,
Abbey
just a thought…
male, female/masculine, feminine
being/having the same
the same palette of colours
only with different nuances, emphasises…
Continueing in the same metaphor,
God being/having a palette with primary colours,
meaning those basic colours
out of which all other colours, nuances, emphasises are made of…
Like blue and yellow make green and the emphasis on either
blue or yellow creates different shades of green…
Lots of love,
Vicky
Dearest Paulo,
My God presented as He to me,in my life,all without expectation. And I have seen and experienced that although it is a HE and I like that, the same He has so much Compassion and Love in Him.
I hope I’m making some sense here…
Thank you,
Sheela.