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THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 human person's true being."
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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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"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 the unity of all moments of time….God is the absolute now."
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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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"Everything that exists, exists in God whose life it shares."
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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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"The Son is being, realized. Through him everything exists (Romans 11:36; 1 Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:16). This statement implies a temporal eternity or eternal temporality, i.e., tempiternity, in the Son. He is the realization of the Father and therefore the visibility (John 14:9) or the being of the Father. He manifests God's perfect transcendence as immanent and through his being points to transcendence. As immanent transcendence he is being's eternal transcending being in the trinitarian self-realization of God."
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"God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation."
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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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"Freedom is the awareness of the basis of life and life lived in rhythm with this basis."
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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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"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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"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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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."
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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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"Love is the very structure of the one reality."
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"Ethics is rooted in the dynamism of love."
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"Perfection is uninterrupted resonance in God."
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