As a part, you inhere in the Whole. You will vanish into that which gave you birth; or rather, you will be transmuted once more into the creative Reason of the universe.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Four
As usual, MA hits it out of the park. The notion that God is some gray-haired dude sitting on a throne, dispensing judgment, is absurd and insulting, especially to God. I suspect, as I long have, that the Hindus and Buddhists have it right when they speak of the concept of the divine and merging with it after we've finished our journey, both in this world and the next. Does it mean that Islam is suddenly incorrect? No, or course not. They're just different metaphors trying to get us to the same place.
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