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Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science - Christopher Bamford, editor
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THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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"God is the ground and mystery of creation who binds himself to forms yet is not held bound by them."
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"Humans are a true mirror-image of God. They project the manifold, but remain one and also know it, or at least can come to know it, because their true nature as pure consciousness is the integrating power of the One."
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"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."
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"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."
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"Each person's destiny is truly integrated into a final beyond-individual and transpersonal connectedness of the one reality."
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"On the grounds of a basic unity or karmic connectedness of all things, nothing can be lost, nothing can be outside."
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"Ethics is rooted in the dynamism of love."
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"Whoever recognizes in atman (the Self) the unity of reality is free from fear. For fear arises when there is an other who poses a threat. But atman is knowledge, and for it there is no other that is not already essentially a self. Non-dulaity is freedom from fear."
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"God is relationship within the moments of one movement which constitutes his being."
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"Freedom is the awareness of the basis of life and life lived in rhythm with this basis."
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"God as creator cannot be experienced in any other way than as an ever present milieu."
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"Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of love."
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"The love of God is the unity of reality….God is love, and therefore the one who dwells in love knows that God is in him and he in God (1 John 4:9ff.)."
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"Love is the very structure of the one reality."
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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."
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"God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation."
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"It could be said that Jesus' experience both contains advaitic [non-dualistic] experience and proceeds towards a goal. It reaches its climax in the union of a personal encounter: i.e., it is in a perpetual dynamic of becoming one."
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"There is no chaos, forsaken by God, but only the one reality as an ordered whole, filled with divine power."
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"In an image from the German mystics, human life is like a flower, which willingly unfolds in order to receive the rays of the sun."
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"Being crucified with Christ in order to share in the resurrection produces a new advaitic (non-dual) identity beyond our denial of self. I am no longer cut off from others as an individual self, but am now joined to the process of God's self-realization: this is the ground and goal of my life (John 12:25; Romans 6:3ff.; Gal. 2:19f.; Col. 2:12f.)"
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"The world…is God's creation and, as such, is a determined moment in God's self-realization."
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"The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."
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"When the dialogue partner becomes for me a source of my own self-understanding, he/she is also a source of my understanding of God."
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"God is at one and the same time and in the same circumstances the ground and the goal of reality. This can be illustrated in the following way: we frequently imagine reality as a ladder of cosmic evolution. God is not only the highest rung of the ladder, but also the material out of which it is constructed as well as its structure and its transendent ground that makes everything possible."
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"The Absolute is in all experiences for there is nothing which is not an explication or manifestation of what we call the Absolute….the Absolute is not the sum of all the parts, but the unity of part and whole."
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