THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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"The divinity is One reality which, because of our manner of seeing it, appears in different hypostases which are perfect in themselves."
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"It is not so much a question of finding in the partner's position analogous terms for one's own system. Rather, we try to clarify equivalent functions of our own practices, symbols and terms, in order to recognize, adapt, and fulfill the existential MEANING of religious reality which comes to light in the encounter."
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"Perfection is uninterrupted resonance in God."
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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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"Brahman is one and is everything, above everything, outside everything, beyond everything and yet in everything….Brahman is the real self of all beings."
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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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"Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of love."
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"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."
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"Our lives reflect divine creativity. Through our relationship to all other forms or manifestations of divine life we are continually expanding, concretizing, and realizing God's creativity."
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"Our 'own' consciousness is like a light which is switched on in the meeting with another. What is new in today's interreligious situation could be described as a worldwide and conscious application of this principle to interreligious dialogue, with the goal of cooperation in all areas of life."
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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."
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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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"Love is the very structure of the one reality."
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"Everything that exists, exists in God whose life it shares."
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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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"God as creator cannot be experienced in any other way than as an ever present milieu."
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"Everything is grounded in consciousness of the whole. The whole is always there and awaits our receptivity."
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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 personal center of the individual is essentially the Self (atman), which is beyond the particularities of physical-psychic-mental life or of any changeable things or of change as such."
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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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"The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."
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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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"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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"Through the unifying power of love of the Spirit, creation reaches completion; i.e., it attains its essence."
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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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