Collages of Truths

Truth is, I’m kind of scared about the Truth 

And everybody wants to make the sense out of it

Some, with rationality

Others, with pure—if not blind—faith

Some are enough with what’s here

Others are craving for what’s beyond there

I believe in both, the so called

Rational-logic

And the ‘inner’-logic

A logic that enables you to see beyond

We tried, and it makes sense, for us

Despite the limitation that we have (for now)
in seeing and understanding the beyond

And honestly I’m a little bit scared

Because we would keep on asking

And deep inside I’m scared if we come

to the point where we understand

the Truth

and that it all makes sense

There was a writer (I think it was Borges) who was talking about another writer (yes, I’m bad at remembering names for references) who wrote this story about a person who met God.

God offered him two things: The Answer on the right hand; and paths to find The Answer on the left hand.

(Let’s just all assume that this God is an anthropomorphic god)

That person chose the left hand.

Reza Aslan, a brilliant scholar on Religion, said this beautiful thing in his interview with Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, which is accessible on Youtube:

Q: "As a historian and a scholar, as you read all of this… How can you still believe in any of this religion?"

A: “I don’t believe in religion— I believe in God. The only reason why I call myself a Muslim, is because the symbols and metaphors that Islam uses to talk about God are the ones that I like, the ones that makes sense to me. It’s not like Islam is more true than Christianity or Christianity is more true than Judaism. They are all equally true, equally valid ways of expressing what is absolutely inexpressible.

If you believe that there’s something beyond the material world, that there is something truly transcendent, then you need some kind of language to talk about it—to make sense of it. That’s all that religion is. Anyone who says ‘I believe in Christianity’ or ‘I believe in Islam’ misses the point. Christianity and Islam are not things to believe—they are signposts to God. They are a means to an end, not an end in itself.”

“It’s a simple proposition. You either believe that there’s something beyond the material world or you do not. If you do not, fine.

If you do, then do you actually want to experience it, commune with it or do you not? If you do not, fine.

If you do, then you need some help. You need a way to express what is fundamentally indefinable.  And that’s all religion does—it gives you language to express it. Anything more than that, then you’re missing the point of what religion is.

The great Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, once said, ‘if you focus too narrowly on a single path to God, all that you can find is the path.’”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL6E4eMX-4k (near the end of the video, about the last 3-4 minutes, where the rest of the video is about his book, which is really interesting as well)