WRESTLING WITH THE PROPHETS, ESSAYS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Matthew Fox
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"The spirit in the human person is our quest for the infinite." Thomas Aquinas
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"Human beings give a home to the divine within them."
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"Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion."
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"There can be no thing that does not have within it the signature of God, the Creator of life, the living substance out of which all particular manifestations arise." Howard Thurman
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"The Cosmic Christ is the divine element, the divine 'I am', in every creature."
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"Prayer is about strengthening the heart. 'Courage' comes from the French words for a large heart, and that is what prayer is about."
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"The image of God in every person is precisely the imagination or the capacity of each person for creativity."
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"Justice, after all, is not an anthropocentric invention any more than is interdependence or compassion. Rather, in a living cosmology, justice as well as interdependence are laws of the universe and therefore laws by which humanity ought to be living."
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"Our thinking about spirituality cannot take place from armchairs or academic towers but must include the dirtying of the hands, the stretching of the heart, the opening of the mystic inside….the encountering of our greatest mystics of the past and present, the struggle for justice on many levels of society and its institutions and of our psyches, and the coming together of mystical traditions of East, West, North, and South."
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"Compassionate healing by way of justice making is the greatest of the gifts we return to creation and the Creator."
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"The Goddess tradition is about divinity's immanence in all things."
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"Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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"The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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"Jewish Wisdom literature taught that the 'spirit of the Lord fills the whole universe' (Wis. 1:7). Jewish cosmology teaches that the universe is one and that we are part of it and can know our place in it."
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"The ultimate vocation is to serve others by responding creatively to the needs of one's times."
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"There cannot but be one wisdom….Humans must therefore all agree that there is but one most simple wisdom whose power is infinite." Nicholas of Cusa, 'Opera Omnia'
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"One who is not grateful is not yet alive, for gratitude is born of awe, wonder, and reverence."
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"Every time we birth beauty or justice or truth or compassion, we are cocreators with God birthing divinity itself."
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"Now consider this: God is in everything, but God is nowhere as much as he is in the soul. There, where time never enters, where no image shines in, in the innermost and deepest aspect of the soul God creates the whole cosmos. Everything which God created millions of years ago and everything which will be created by God after millions of years – God is creating all that in the innermost and deepest realms of the soul." Meister Eckhart
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"All energy is interconnected."
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"God is found not only in the light and glory of creation but also in absolute darkness."
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"Every single person is a unique expression of the Cosmic Christ. As the mystics say, everyone is a unique mirror of God."
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"But who is God? God is Creator, God is constant birther of the universe, and we are called to be cocreators with God."
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"Everywhere people ask, 'What can I actually do?' The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting. We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work…can still be found in the traditinal wisdom of humankind." E. F. Schumacher, 'Small is Beautiful'
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"Spirit works to bring persons together today around the Good News of humanity's power and responsibility to heal Mother Earth, to celebrate our shared existence, and to revere creation."
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