THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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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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"Since eschatological fulfillment refers to the true nature of creation and the divine will which is expressed in it, the significance of the 'communio sanctorum' [sacred community] is universal. It is realized by the power of the Spirit, who cannot be contained by human ideas and institutional borders. It is a communion of 'men and women of good will' (Luke 2:14). And this is manifested in various religions as well as in secular societies, and to an extent in every human heart."
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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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"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."
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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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"Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of 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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"God is the unity of all moments of time….God is the absolute now."
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"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."
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"God is the human person's true being."
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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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"Unifying love fully reaches its goal in a suprahistorical being-with and being-in that involves both God and humans. For God is so fully present to and in all that no other source of light is needed to enable us to live and be enlightened (Rev. 22:5)."
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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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"Everything that exists, exists in God whose life it shares."
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"God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation."
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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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"Science recognizes today the interrelationality of the universe. Relativity theory, quantum physics, post-Darwinian models of evolution, psychosomatic medicine, parapsychological research, biofeedback and, most of all, experience with Yoga and meditation support this basic vision."
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"God is relationship within the moments of one movement which constitutes his being."
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"Insofar as humans become aware of being and recognize atman they realize not only their own identity -…but they also integrate the polarity of difference and identity in the participatory act of lovingly becoming one."
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"Ethics has its basis not in a forever grounded ought, but in a real transformation, which includes being aware of the interdependence of all being."
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"The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."
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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."
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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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"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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"God is the ground and mystery of creation who binds himself to forms yet is not held bound by them."
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