SPIRITUAL LITERACY, READING THE SACRED IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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"I have often felt myself to be a point of light, connected to everyone I have ever loved or mattered to, each also being a point of light, in turn connected to those they love, so that somehow we are all part of a vast web of twinkling lights." Jean Shinoda Bolen, 'Crossing to Avalon'
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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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"The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist'
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"It is very significant indeed that physics now sees the whole universe as a web of dynamic interrelationships. When we come to the human person, our lives are also a network of interrelationships." Bede Griffiths
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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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"Seen from space, Earth has no national borders, no military zones, no visible fences. Quite the opposite. You can see how storm systems swirling above a continent may well affect the grain yield half a world away. The entire atmosphere of the planet – all the air we breathe, all the sky we fly through, even the ozone layer – is visible as the thinnest rind. The picture eloquently reminds one that Earth is a single organism." Diane Ackerman, 'The Rarest of the Rare'
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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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"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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"In every moment of genuine love, we are dwelling in God and God in us." Paul Tillich, contemporary Protestant theologian
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"Life is a sacred adventure. Every day we encounter signs that point to the active presence of Spirit in the world around us."
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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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"Even the common articles made for daily use become endowed with beauty when they are loved."
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"In a real sense all life is interrelated. All people are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically." Madeleine L'Engle
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"The moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community." Howard Thurman
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"Looking deeply at any one thing, we see the whole cosmos. The one is made of the many."
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"I am called to seek wholeness inside of myself. Healing begins here, in myself. Wholeness and unity begin inside of myself. If I am growing toward wholeness, then I'll be an agent of wholeness. If our community is an agent of wholeness, then it will be a source of life for the world around it." Jean Vanier, 'From Brokenness to Community'
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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 here to awaken from the illusion of separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist poet
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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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"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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"Let Spirit flow through you in little acts of kindness, brief words of encouragement, and manifold expressions of courtesy. These deeds will add to the planet's fund of good will."
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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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"The Weaver of Oneness wants us to be united with each other – neighbors with neighbors, communities with communities, religions with religions, nations with nations."
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"Everything that happens to us and everything we encounter contribute to our journey toward wholeness."
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