SPIRITUAL LITERACY, READING THE SACRED IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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"If I deny the oneness of man, I deny the oneness of God. Therefore I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity, I am hungry and incomplete." Norman Cousins, American editor
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"Accept the mystery of being loved by the Divine Magnet."
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"Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us." Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian journalist
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"Treat everyone you meet just like you would if you just had your breath taken away by the most beautiful person in the world. Treat each situation in the day as though you were head-over-heels in love." Scout Cloud Lee, Native American elder
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"In every moment of genuine love, we are dwelling in God and God in us." Paul Tillich, contemporary Protestant theologian
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"Anything can become a disclosure of grace. We experience intimations of the divine in a lover's embrace, a rainbow, a baby's smile, a bird's flight overhead, a friend's forgiveness, a dolphin's leap, or the selfless service of a volunteer."
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"Take good care of the best that is within you. Self-exploration and personal growth continue throughout our lifetimes and equip us to tend to the needs of others."
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"No matter what form our job or activity takes, the content is the same as everyone else's: we are here to minister to human hearts. If we talk to anyone, or see anyone, or even think of anyone, then we have the opportunity to bring more love into the universe." Marianne Williamson, 'A Return to Love'
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"To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all our attainments." Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologian
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"When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time….If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos….When you touch one, you touch many, when you touch many, you touch one….Look more deeply, and you will see yourself as penetrating everywhere, interbeing with everyone and everything." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, 'Cultivating the Mind of Love'
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"If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand." Buddha
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"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Teresa
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"The world is alive and moving toward you with rare epiphanies and wonderful surprises. Remember you are standing on holy ground."
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"We are vessels containing the Holy One."
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"I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent." Mahatma Gandhi
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"Practice reverence for life. The sacred is in, with, and under all things of the world. Respond with appropriate respect and awe."
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"Our lives extend beyond our skins, in radical interdependence with the rest of the world." Joanna Macy
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"God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally in the present now." Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic
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"All the inhabitants of the world – the trees, flowers, fields, streams, hills, rocks, dolphins, bears, birds, and babies – are our relations, as Native Americans express it."
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"We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist poet
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"Your encounters with others reveal your connection with the Oneness."
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"The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things – all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals. All things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and their own purpose." Rolling Thunder, Native American elder
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"Love is the pattern that stitches the universe together."
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"We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."
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"If you love it enough, anything will talk with you." George Washington Carver, American who discovered over 200 uses for the peanut plant
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