If you seek to know God

[Abhorrent]

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then end your pursuit along His trail of footprints,
for you will be following your folly.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then begin to know the devil instead,
for he is more real than God.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then appear to be friends with the devil,
for God will become jealous.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then find where the devil resides,
for God will come to watch you.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then deceive the devil himself,
for you will know God.

[Lollipop_King]

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then start your pursuit where His trail of footprints end,
for you will be following your destiny.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then begin to be the devil instead,
for he is more real than God.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then appear to be friends with God,
for God is a fool that must be killed.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then hide where the devil resides,
for God will seek to find you.

If you seek to know God like I have done in my life,
then deceive God himself,
for you will then become like God.

[Abhorrent]

Satyr-

I appreciate your contribution here, very nice!

[sonofspinoza1986]

@"Fyodor Dostoyevsky in [i

Brothers Karamazov[/i]"]‘The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of men.’

I cannot simply take sides with devils or gods. But I know this: my suffering resulting from the war between them produces greatnesses of which I may someday take hold.

[Arcturus_Descending]

@sonofspinoza1986

@"Fyodor Dostoyevsky in [i

Brothers Karamazov[/i]"]‘The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of men.’

I cannot simply take sides with devils or gods. But I know this: my suffering resulting from the war between them produces greatnesses of which I may someday take hold.

There is a saying that we have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.

Both speak to us at different times, and perhaps at times, in unison. Perhaps it is in “recognizing” that we have both that we are able to see ourselves more clearly in our dualistic nature, and then in sitting in simple awareness of both these natures, without the struggling, we may be able to combine both energies and re-create our heart.

I read the Brothers Karamazov, one of my all time favorites and so is Dostoyevsky. Now there was a philosopher.

'The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.

Perhaps I would probably say also that "the wonderful thing about beauty is that it is also mysterious. It depends on one’s own perception and there are as many perceptions in the universe as there are individuals.

[sonofspinoza1986]

@arcturus rising

There is a saying that we have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.

Both speak to us at different times, and perhaps at times, in unison. Perhaps it is in “recognizing” that we have both that we are able to see ourselves more clearly in our dualistic nature, and then in sitting in simple awareness of both these natures, without the struggling, we may be able to combine both energies and re-create our heart.

That all depends on whether you only have two neatly divided sets of inclinations: one which are always speaking to your benefit, the other always speaking to your harm. I’d say when you start considering several options for the future, you have a host of voices at your ear. The Brand New saying “God and devil are raging inside me” is dualistic only for the convenience of not having to list a metaphorical Greek pantheon instead.

@arcturus rising

I read the Brothers Karamazov, one of my all time favorites and so is Dostoyevsky. Now there was a philosopher.

I agree. It’s funny how ‘literature’ and ‘philosophy’ are so distanced in academia.

[oldschoolhero]

if you seek to know god, go to him.

if you seek to know the devil,
know your self deep enough to understand that that is not you.
just a dog, without a leash.

realize: you are the one watching that dog, submissively.