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concept:being-drunk-in-godBeing drunk in God
Sufi phrase for a blithe, unfettered state where one is free of concepts and fully alive—associated with the deepest life.
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- The quality of life visible in examples is described by mystical writers as ‘being drunk in God’.associated_withLinks the aesthetic quality to cross‑cultural mystical experience.
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- Sufismassociated_withIslamic mystical tradition whose notion of 'being drunk in God' describes the state where life is most alive and free.
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- We have drunk to the remembrance of the Beloved a wine wherewith we were made drunk before the vine was created.associated_withFrom 'Umar Ibn al-Farid’s Khamriyyah, used to illustrate the pre‑conceptual, ecstatic basis of the deepest life.
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- The Sufi concept of ecstatic union with the divine, equated by Alexander with the state of truly pleasing oneself.
- The central theological claim that the quality without a name is not an indication of God but God itself.
- A living center that is a picture of the self, connected to the I; a center that evokes relatedness and feels animated, self-like.
- A dimension of the environment linked to wholeness and the sacred, beyond material concerns.
- The intention to make something humble and free of self-aggrandizement, as an offering to the divine.
- The personal God of historical religions, whose unshakable belief focused attention on wholeness and enabled the creation of living structure.
- The idea that God is present in all matter, and that this shining forth is more visible in some things than others.
- The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.