WRESTLING WITH THE PROPHETS, ESSAYS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Matthew Fox
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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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"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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"The spirit in the human person is our quest for the infinite." Thomas Aquinas
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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 I have of the Godhead is a great big cosmic Mama with creation on her lap."
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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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"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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"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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"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 ultimate vocation is to serve others by responding creatively to the needs of one's times."
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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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"All energy is interconnected."
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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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"The Cosmic Christ is the divine element, the divine 'I am', in every creature."
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"We are in divinity and the divinity is in us…- and by 'we' I do not mean merely the two-legged ones but the entire universe: atoms and galaxies, rain and whales, trees and fish, dogs and rabbits, and humans too."
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"It is built into us to be able to bring about justice."
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"Hebrew Scriptures and creation mystics like Hildegard and Eckhart understand injustice as a rupture in the cosmos itself. Justice is NOT human invention – it is built into the universe itself."
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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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"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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"The Goddess tradition is about divinity's immanence in all things."
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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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"Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion."
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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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"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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"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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