WRESTLING WITH THE PROPHETS, ESSAYS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Matthew Fox
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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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"All energy is interconnected."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God." Hildegard of Bingen
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"The spirit in the human person is our quest for the infinite." Thomas Aquinas
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"The image I have of the Godhead is a great big cosmic Mama with creation on her lap."
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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 Goddess tradition is about divinity's immanence in all things."
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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 Cosmic Christ is the divine element, the divine 'I am', in every creature."
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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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"'If I spent enough time with a caterpillar', [Meister] Eckhart vows, 'I would never have to prepare a sermon because one caterpillar is so full of God.'"
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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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"Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion."
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"We are inevitably approaching a new age in which the world will throw off its chains and at last give itself up to the power of its inner affinities." Pierre Teilhard deChardin
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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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"How nobly man is constituted by nature, and how divine is the state to which he can come by grace." Meister Eckhart
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"The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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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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"Justice is not just a moral category for humans – it is a cosmic law, a cosmic 'habit', as scientist Rupert Sheldrake would say, into which humans can also fit. The quest for balance and equilibrium is built into our bodies, into our minds (dreams come to bring balance back when we are out of balanc)', and into the earth body."
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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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"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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