WRESTLING WITH THE PROPHETS, ESSAYS ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Matthew Fox
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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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"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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"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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"Human beings give a home to the divine within them."
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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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"Interrelatedness, seeing the oneness of all things and their interconnections, is the essence of compassion."
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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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"Every time we birth beauty or justice or truth or compassion, we are cocreators with God birthing divinity itself."
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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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"The ultimate vocation is to serve others by responding creatively to the needs of one's times."
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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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"'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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"The Cosmic Christ is the divine element, the divine 'I am', in every creature."
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"The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures." Mechtild of Magdeburg
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"The spirit in the human person is our quest for the infinite." Thomas Aquinas
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The image I have of the Godhead is a great big cosmic Mama with creation on her lap."
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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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"It is built into us to be able to bring about justice."
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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 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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