"The Arabic word 'islam' means 'submission', or to be more precise 'the surrender of one's whole being, to the Divine Unity, to the Oneness that is God."
The Essence of Sufism - John Baldock
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COVENANT OF THE HEART, MEDITATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN HERMETICIST ON THE MYSTERIES OF TRADITION
Valentin Tomberg
The power of these meditations is that they reflect the author's personal spiritual journey into the depths of God's kingdom within...within the soul, within personal relations, within nature, within the cosmos.
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"Intuition is the faculty of knowledge which results from instinct that is illumined by reason."
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"The moral law inscribed in the human soul – Kant's categorical imperative – signifies the reality of the presence in the human being of what the Bible calls the 'image and likeness of God', that is, the principal archetype of Man."
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"The archetype of the human being is God…'God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him' (Genesis 1:27)."
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"Always, in all eternity, there will exist for each and every being a creative work and a field for creative work."
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"Justice represents the crown of Man's moral development – what might be called 'wisdom become flesh'."
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"God is eternal Being. And the true self of man is eternally coming into being as the breath of life from eternal Being. The Self of man rests in the breath of the Godhead."
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"Moral logic, the logic of divine wisdom,…comes about in the human being from the union – or even fusion – of the thinking of head and heart."
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"God wills it that man may fulfill his earthly experience and task, even when they have been interrupted by death."
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""It is impossible for a peaceful and concentrated reader (i.e., for a meditative reader) of the Gospels not to begin to love the person of Jesus Christ, and also not to sense him as a working and actual reality."
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"Every movement, even the slightest, exerts an effect ultimately upon the whole world."
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"Through the world of temporal existence there streams the breath of the presence of eternal being."
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"Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world."
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"The spiritual life of mankind is maintained through the breath of the Spirit…and the great religions of mankind are quite conscious of this fact."
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Love is the foundation, the meaning, and the purpose of the world."
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"Not only Genesis, but also the Bhagavad Gita, speaks of the law of repeated impulses of the divine spirit intervening in order to maintain the level of intensity of the original life-impuse of the world."
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"From the very beginning, man was created as a bearer of love. He is not simply homo sapiens, but over and above this he is potentially homo amans."
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"The breathing of the breath of life is the kernel of the human being, eternally coming into being from God."
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"Faith is not simply a matter of holding something to be true but of experiencing the breath of eternal God, bestowing being."
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"The solemn majesty of the starry heaven proclaims the presence – the all-pervading presence – of the holy Being underlying the universe."
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"The world of the senses, the kingdoms of nature, testify to the all-pervasive wisdom of God."
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"There are many levels of freedom. But the highest is that of love."
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"The state of the risen Jesus Christ is the goal and the hope of the path of destiny of mankind. It is the most perfect ideal of which one could ever think or dream."
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"Oneness or unity encompasses all numbers, and all numbers should be reduced back to unity."
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"Love is the self's life element, its substance, and its power of growth."
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"Just as the seed determines the future ways and stages of growth, so the Good Shepherd decides the ways of development of the true being of mankind and leads them along these ways."
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