"From ancient Egyptian to modern Eskimo, 'soul' is a highly differentiated idea referring to a reality of great impact. The soul has been imaged as the inner man, and as the inner sister or spouse, the place or voice of God within, as a cosmic force in which all humans, even all things living, participate, as having been given by God and thus divine, as conscience, as a multiplicity and as a unity in diversity, as a harmony, as a fluid, as fire, as dynamic energy."
A Blue Fire - James Hillman
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THE UNITY OF REALITY
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue
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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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"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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"Each person's destiny is truly integrated into a final beyond-individual and transpersonal connectedness of the one reality."
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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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"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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"God is the unity of all moments of time….God is the absolute now."
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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 continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation."
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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 as creator cannot be experienced in any other way than as an ever present milieu."
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"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."
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"Only when we can treat others….as a thou and as a source for our self-understanding is true brotherhood/sisterhood possible between all peoples."
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"God is the human person's true being."
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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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"Reality is a self-differentiated whole. The ground of the wholeness is God, who manifests himself at various levels, each of which forms a relative wholeness and reacts with the others."
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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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"Everything is grounded in consciousness of the whole. The whole is always there and awaits our receptivity."
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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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"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."
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