Visions of God

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world. I am circling around God, around the ancient towers and I have been circling for a thousand years. And I still don't know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song. --Rainer Maria Rilke

We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any name we wished: Abyss, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence. But never forget, it is we who give it a name. --Nikos Kazantzakis

The Kingdom of God is within you. --Jesus (Luke 17:21)

The eye with which I see God
Is the very eye with which God sees me. --Meister Eckhart

For God to me, it seems is a verb
not a noun,
proper or improper;
is the articulation
not the art...
is loving,
not the abstraction of love...
Yes, God is a verb,
the most active, connoting the vast harmonic
reordering of the universe
from the unleashed chaos of energy. --Buckminster Fuller

The Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire,but the bush was not consumed.--(Exodus 3:2)

And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne,in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of a throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance of his waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it;and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw,as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day,so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of God.--(Ezekial 1:26-28)

Immediately, I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven,and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne,in appearance like an emerald.--(Revelation 4:2-3)

Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven....The measure thereof is larger than the earth, and broader than the sea.--Job 11:7-9

The Tao cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It. The Tao cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It. The Tao cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not It. Do we know the Formless which gives form to form? In the sam way the Tao does not admit of being.--Kwang-Tze

Realize that thou are "that"--Brahma, which is the cessation of all differentiation, which never changes its nature and is as unmoved as a waveless ocean, eternally unconditioned and undivided.--Raja Yoga

Whoever know the God who is without commencement, without end, who within this impervious[world] is the creator of the universe, who is of an infinite form, the one penetrator of the universe, becomes liberated from all bonds.--The Upanishads

Thus it is that the Tao(Spirit) produces [all things], nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them.--Tao Te Ching

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.--Amos 4:13