God sleeps in the stone, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and wakes in man.
I Googled it tonight in an effort to discover its origin, but without success. One website said it came from a Sufi mystic, while another gave its origin as the Bhagavad Gita (which, as far as I know, predates Sufi mystics by quite some way.)
What intrigues me, however, is that it bears remarkable coincidence with the doctrine – accepted as credible by some mainstream scientists, apparently – of Panpsychism. This is the assertion that at the beginning of existence, unformed consciousness took form and created the whole material universe, and that consciousness is the fundamental basis of all matter, and exists – to different levels of attainment – in everything material.
I suppose that’s why I liked it, because it’s something I’ve suspected ever since my teen years. It also accords closely with the Hindu creation myth and is far removed from the hopelessly simplistic notions of God promoted by the exoteric teachings of the Judaic school.
(Then again, I don’t regard anything as established fact just because a Sufi mystic or a holy book says so. Thinking on.)
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