Wednesday, June 27, 2012

An interesting Letter: "D"



GoD (English)  Dio (Italian)  Dieu (French)  Dios (Spanish)  Deus (Latin)  Dumnezeu (Romanian)  Diyos    (Philipino)   GuD (Danish)   Duw (Welsh)  Dia (Irish).

What does this list of the translation of the word God mean? Simply this. While looking at them, I noticed that in many languages such word contains the letter D and a weird idea struck me. Capital D is a perfect semi-circle. A full circle is the symbol for perfection and completeness, so a half circle could mean that all we can actually know about the Supreme Force (Prime Creator or however you want to call it) is just a half of the whole. What we - as we presently are - won't be able to understand, to discover, to know, is the other half. It's what in Arabic is perfectly defined as "Alam al ghaib", the hidden world. And also what the philosopher Michel de Montaigne meant when he wrote, "What we don't know (yet) is nothing compared to what we  shall never know". Depressing statement? I don't think so. A mystic said that we should aim at the stars although we know that we will never reach them. Or... Maybe we will. Who knows? No one can tell for sure what is bound to happen. Why not try our best to outdo ourselves, to accomplish something special, something worthwhile? Something to be proud of? No need for heroism, just being the best we can be is enough.


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