Now this small parable.
Imam Muhammed Baqir is said to have related this illustrative fable:
‘Finding I could speak the language of ants, I approached one and enquired, “What is God like? Does he resemble the ant?”
‘He answered, “God! No, indeed – we have only a single sting, but God, he has two!”‘
That’s how all your religions and philosophies are – God is just your magnified form. You have one sting, he has two. You live seventy years, he lives eternally. You become old, he never becomes old. But the difference is of quantity, not of quality. Your God is your projected, reformed, modified, decorated form. Your God is you as you would like to be.
Osho (Acharya Rajneesh) in the book Sufis: People of the Path Vol. 2
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (c. 676–732) was the fifth imam in Shia Islam. A well-known figure among the Sufi, al-Baqir defined Sufism as “goodness of disposition: he that has the better disposition is the better Sufi.”
Acharya Rajneesh (1931-1990), known later as Osho, was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial religious leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organised into any one system of religious dogma. He advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he asked his followers to live fully in the world but without attachment to it. Pic courtesy: https://www.sannyas.wiki/