THE COMING OF THE COSMIC CHRIST
Matthew Fox
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"We have a responsibility to give back the cherished blessing of our lives with grace and gratitude. We must return blessing for blessing. Generativity and creativity have been built into the universe from the start."
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"Hildegard of Bingen teaches that prayer is essentially the inhaling and exhaling of the one breath of the universe."
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"A river passes through many countries and each claims it for its own. But there is only one river." Sheikh Ragip Frager, 'Love is the Wine: Talks of a Sufi Master'
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"All are called to be in touch with the true self."
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"What is it we are always being told to behold in Jesus' parables? The divine presence everywhere."
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"Inside, outside, o friends, all one." Kabir
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"The Cosmic Christ IS the 'pattern that connects' and connecting is what all wisdom is about, as the philosopher Gabriel Marcel points out: 'The true function of the sage is surely the function of linking together, of bringing into harmony….the sage is truly linked with the universe.'"
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"Since 'every creature is a word of God' as Meister Eckhart put it, it follows that Mother Earth is a special word of God: a unique expression of divine wisdom, of divine maternity and caring, of divine creativity and fruitfulness."
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"The whole universe is the great world, the macrocosm; its parts are small universes in themselves, microcosms. Such a microcosm is man, who is in himself an image of the universe and a perfect being." Otto Rank, 'Art and Artist'
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"Deep ecumenism is the movement that will unleash the wisdom of ALL world religions – Hinduism and Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, Taoism and Shintoism, Christianity in all its forms, and native religions and goddess religions throughout the world. This unleashing of wisdom holds the last hope for the survival of the planet."
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"Even small experiences of creation, such as mustard seeds, contain the divine."
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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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"Compassion is the 'keen awareness of the interdependence of all living things which are all part of one another and involved in one another,' as Thomas Merton observed."
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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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"I foresee a renaissance, 'a rebirth based on a spiritual initiative', to use historian M. D. Chenu's definition, as the result of the outpouring of the Spirit. This new birth will cut through all cultures and all religions and indeed will draw forth the wisdom common to all vital mystical traditions in a global religious awakening I call 'deep ecumenism.'"
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"The holy omnipresence of the Divine One [is] in all things."
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"God is the dazzling light that constitutes the creative center of all life and movement. In that Point every 'where' and every 'when' are centered." Dante, 'The Divine Comedy', translated by Matthew Fox
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"Like fish in water and the water in the fish, creation is in God and God is in creation."
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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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"Divinity is not outside us. We are in God and God is in us."
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"Creativity is the fundamental law of the human psyche which constitutes a microcosm of the universe."
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"The whole is present in each part, in each level of existence. The living reality, which is total and unbroken and undivided, is in everything." David Bohm
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"The fire at the center of the tepee, pipe, or of sweat lodge represents Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit within the world. How close this comes to Meister Eckhart's teaching that a 'spark of the soul' burns within every creature and every human that will never be extinguished and that this spark of the soul is the divine presence within us all. All of creation shares in this holiness."
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"The Divine One is the 'One who is with us', Emmanuel, 'God with us.'"
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"Every person has a gift to give the community."
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