Madam Neoteric

Yar:

There is one God as there is one universe.

Me:

National religion: in practice, only the gods of one’s own nation are significant to the devotee.

It is impossible for any individual to exemplify all the possible ways of being human. So why assume that it is possible for a ‘being’ to exemplify all the possible ways of being divine? Why think, in other words, that there aren’t different and mutually exclusive ways of exemplifying divinity — being Allah as depicted in the Quran, for example, or being the triune God of Christianity, or the Vishnu of the Shri Vaishnavas, or the triune Goddess of the Pagan Celts?

From a Newsvine thread.

I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
After that, soaring higher than angels —
What you cannot imagine,
I shall be that.

— Rumi

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I WAS USED TO MY WALLS
by Lidija Šimkutė

You wrecked them and enclosed me
     within yourself