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PERCEIVING DIVINITY
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"The divine mystery and miracle of existence is laid bare in the unique existence of each atom, each galaxy, each tree, bird, fish, dog, flower, star, rock, and human."
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
(Matthew Fox)
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"You are pure capacity for God….God has a plan for you."
A Tree Full of Angels
(Macrina Wiederkehr)
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"We might still see God everywhere, if we had not been mistakenly seeking for him apart from us, instead of in us; away from the laws of nature, instead of in them. And we become united, not by mystical absorption, but by partaking of that truth and justice and love which He himself is." Plato
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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"Never has Deity left Itself at any time without witness. Never has man demanded light that the light has not been forthcoming. Never has there been a time, cycle or world period when there was not the giving out of the teaching and spiritual help which human need demanded. Never did the hearts and minds of men go out towards God, but that divinity itself came nearer to man. The history of mankind is, in reality, the history of man's demand for light and for contact with God, and then the giving of light and the approach of God to man."
The Reappearance of the Christ
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Until you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you." Rabindranath Tagore
Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations
(Margaret Pepper, editor)
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"The dark mystery of God beyond every thing, the mystery that transcends our words, our images, and time itself – that mystery is happening here and now, constantly, in every detail of our ordinariness. The radiant mystery of God sending himself forth and embracing us, catching us up in the way of realization, and returning us to himself – this mystery is AT PLAY among us, in our sharings and our follies at every moment."
A Retreat With St. Bonaventure
(Leonard J. Bowman)
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"Divinity must be lived, expressed and manifested, to be understood."
Esoteric Psychology I
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The drop of water has the same relationship to the sea that the I has to the Divine. People can find the Divine within themselves because their innermost being is drawn from the Divine."
An Outline of Occult Science
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"Evidence suggests that the original meaning of the phrase that has come down to us as 'fear of God' was something more like awe. And awe, wrote Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal'."
Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide
(Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)
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"Those breathings and gaspings after an eternal participation of God are the energy of His own breath within us." Dr. John Smith (1618-1652)
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
(Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)
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"To know creation is to know the Creator."
WHEE! We, wee All the Way Home
(Matthew Fox)
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"All sentient life possesses the Buddha-nature."
Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha Nature
(Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"The spirit of the Lord is a candle, searching out the inward parts…Let us therefore consider how near he is to us; and how none of our thoughts, or reasonings which we frame within ourelves, are hid from him…For he is the searcher of the thoughts and counsels of the heart; whose breath is in us." First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, vs. 2,3,14
The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden
(various)
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"God is near you, with you, within you….a holy spirit sits within us." Seneca
The Mind of Jesus
(William Barclay)
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"The grace of the Kingdom of God is already present, within and without, would we but realize it."
Divine Light and Love
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"We stand in the presence of the Goddess-God unveiled on Earth. The timeless intersecting time."
Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
(Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson)
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"I have come around full circle and think I didn't need to look for God; He was staring me in the face….I was looking everywhere but in the right place. The face of God. It swims in the heat of a summer day. It glistens in the icy rainbows glittering off the frozen limbs of winter trees. In the rain. In the sky. In a clod of dirt."
Ecstatic Journey, The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience
(Sophy Burnham)
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"God is always an artist. There is nothing, however small, no animal seen only in the microscope that is not perfect in its beauty. The more closely you examine it, the more exquisite does it become. With minute diatoms that you can only see through the microscope, every minute shell is sculptured with patterns geometrically perfect – for whom? For the satisfaction of that sense of perfection, which is one of the divine elements in God and humans alike."
The Spiritual Life
(Annie Besant)
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"Remember that the Beloved is probably yearning for you as much, if not a great deal more, than you are yearning for the Beloved."
The Search for the Beloved
(Jean Houston)
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"Wherever you turn, by certain traces which wisdom has impressed on her works, she speaks to you, and recalls you within, gliding back into interior things by the very forms of exterior things." St. Augustine, De lib. Arb II, 41
The Alternative Gospel
(John Baldock)
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"The German psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Karlfried Graf Durckheim tells us that the simple act of watering a flower can be done merely because the plant needs water. But it can also be undertaken as an act of love. The moment is then transformed from an ordinary activity into a profound and memorable experience that introduces us into the presence of spiritual reality both within oursleves and in the material world." Theodore J. Nottingham, 'The Mysticism of Christian Teaching'
The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West
(Jay Kinney, editor)
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"If we do not forget to be astonished and grateful and alert, perhaps we can come to recognize the power of God presenting the world to us, the wisdom of God sustaining it, the goodness of God in the overflow of beauty within ordinary, practical things."
A Retreat With St. Bonaventure
(Leonard J. Bowman)
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"The 'sense of God' is not a metaphor. Innumerable declarations prove it to be a consciousness as sharp as that which other men have of colour, heat, or light."
Mysticism
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"There is a line in a song from the play 'Les Miserables' that says, 'To love another person is to see the face of God.' The 'face of Christ' is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear, and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek."
A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and moulds us."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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