WRESTLING WITH THE PROPHETS, ESSAYS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Matthew Fox
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"In the whole of the history of the human race, no two musicians have spontaneously written the same song, no two painters have painted the same painting – an infinite capacity for creativity. If we want to remake our civilization, we must remake it around what is the Spirit in us: mind, heart, and creativity."
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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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"The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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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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"To manifest the 'sacred' ON the 'cosmos' and to manifest it IN the 'psyche' are the same thing…Cosmos and psyche are the two poles of the same 'expressivity'; I express myself in expressing the world; I explore my own sacrality in deciphering that of the world." Paul Ricoeur, 'The Symbolism of Evil'
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"There can be no love without justice. Or as Meister Eckhart puts it, 'love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are.'"
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"The oldest hymns of the Christian liturgy, those found in the epistles to the Ephesians (1:3-2:3), to the Colossians (1:15-20), and to the Philippians (2:6-11), celebrate the Cosmic Christ who 'fills the whole creation' and 'reconciles all thngs in heaven and all things on earth.'"
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"The power of our ancestors is with us very much at this time."
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"It is no small thing to proclaim…that human beings are made in the 'image and likeness of God.'…Does it mean that every human being is an artist and that in this discovery of one's vocation to create is found the Creator of all?"
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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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"God has arranged all things in the world in consideration of everything else." Hildegard of Bingen
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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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"Deep ecumenism is about shared heart work; it is the coming together of spiritual practioners to do heart work together no matter what our particular religious backgrounds."
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"Meister Eckhart said, 'Become aware of what is in you, announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.' This passion for 'giving birth' is within each one of us. We all have an artist inside, we all want to give our images back to the community. That is the task in this moment of need for creativity."
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"Deep ecumenism is needed today to bring forth the wisdom of all the world religions for the critical issues that our species faces at this..moment in earth history."
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"The spirit in the human person is our quest for the infinite." Thomas Aquinas
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"Compassion is an awareness of our ontological togetherness, of the kinship of all creation and all being."
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"The Goddess tradition is about divinity's immanence in all things."
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"Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion."
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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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"God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God." Hildegard of Bingen
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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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"It is built into us to be able to bring about justice."
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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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"Beauty is the purpose of history; peace, harmony, unity, music are different words that express the same reality. To be religious is to give your life so that the world may be more beautiful, more just, more at peace; it is to prevent egotistical and self-serving ends from disrupting this harmony of the whole." Arturo Paoli, 'Meditations on Saint Luke'
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