THE COMING OF THE COSMIC CHRIST
Matthew Fox
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"We need to worship in circles again, preferably on the soil of Mother Earth wherever possible. Circles invite all creatures to be part of the grateful event and they allow the humans present to look each other in the eye while rounding and connecting themselves in step with the universe."
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"Divinity and we are co-creators, equally responsible one might say, for the survival of Mother Earth and for the kinds of personalities, relationships, lifestyles, politics, and economics that we birth."
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"We are indeed 'part of everything' and one with the mystery of life." Dorothee Soelle
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"All are called to be in touch with the true self."
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"God created the soul in His own image and likeness." St. Teresa of Avila
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"Creatures can be called God's words, because they manifest God's mind just like effects manifest their causes." Thomas Aquinas
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"Inside, outside, o friends, all one." Kabir
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"The Divine One is the 'One who is with us', Emmanuel, 'God with us.'"
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"Our bodies are the temple that con-temples us with other temples, other bodies of the universe, bodies of stars, of suns, of earth, of winged, finned, four-legged and two-legged brothers and sisters, children all of a living God."
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"God's Word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. The Word manifests in every creature." Hildegard of Bingen
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"The Spirit is the One who 'makes all things new.'"
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"The Cosmic Christ is a 'pattern that connects' proton and galaxy, human and neutron, human and supernovas. The Cosmic Christ assures us that nothing is trivial for nothing is unconnected to the whole. All is a source of awe, wonder, wisdom, and the presence of the divine."
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"Every person has a gift to give the community."
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"It is Love that moves the universe."
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"The heartbeat of the Cosmic Christ fills the universe with overflowing love, binding all things together on earth and in heaven."
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"The inward person is not at all in time or place but is purely and simply in eternity. It is there that God arises…[and] is heard, there God is; there God, and God alone, speaks." Meister Eckhart
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"The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom." Nicolas Berdyaev
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"The holy omnipresence of the Divine One [is] in all things."
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"Healing is still possible. This is the hope that the Cosmic Christ, wounded but resurrected, holds out to our times."
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"Each self is a unique mirror of divinity and therefore each person births a unique creation when he or she lets the true self be born."
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"May we grant one another the opportunity to live out our dreams, to care for the wounded child in one another, and to pass on to others still unborn an earth as alive and diverse and wondrous as the one we have inherited."
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"Even small experiences of creation, such as mustard seeds, contain the divine."
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"Politics will become the art of the people, the art of preserving and celebrating Mother Earth, the art of doing justice and keeping balance and harmony. Economics will become the art of planetary management, the art of living harmoniously within the necessary limits that the goods of the earth set for us, the art of common survival wherein all of creation and its immense wealth – which is its health – is celebrated in balance and harmony."
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"Compassion is our universal heritage, our God-origin and our God-destiny. Compassion unites us, it forms the common 'field' that all creatures share."
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"It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature." Hildegard of Bingen
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