THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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"Christ is always already present, for he is the light that enlightens every person coming into the world (John 1:9)."
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"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."
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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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"Through the unifying power of love of the Spirit, creation reaches completion; i.e., it attains its essence."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Perfection is uninterrupted resonance in God."
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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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"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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"God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation."
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"The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."
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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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"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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"Love is the very structure of the one reality."
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"Human freedom consists in knowing the unity of atman (the Self) and the cosmic order."
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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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"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."
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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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"God is the unity of all moments of time….God is the absolute now."
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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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"Each partner is a light for the other and enables him/her to see better the depths of his/her own tradition. The religion of the partner is like a sounding board in which one's own terms and symbols acquire new over- or undertones."
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