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SPIRITUAL GENIUS, THE MASTERY OF LIFE'S MEANING
Winifred Gallagher
The author interviews several people who are spiritual geniuses, those who are masters of Life's meaning and how to express this in their life experiences.
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"Things are more integrated, unified, whole than they seem to us." Huston Smith
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"Everything is here for a reason and connected to everything else."
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"Despite the chaos and confusion around us, everything is all right."
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"That God is one means there's a oneness at the core of all being in whom everything…converges." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"God loves us a billion times more than a mother! Far beyond anything we can experience in our minds and intellects!" Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother
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"I believe people are sacramental – the means by which God communicates God's nature to us." Dr. Tony Campolo, American Baptist minister
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"Once one has truly realized the mind's true nature…you just see incredibly expansive interconnection." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"Everything a person does affects all being." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"I just have to hold people in my prayer and love them and smile and treat them as if they're doing the best they can." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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"Once a person truly awakens to the hidden holiness that underlies and unifies creation, his or her inevitable behavioral response is goodness, or treating others as the 'self' that all share."
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"Pure consciousness, called the universal Self, is all that exists."
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"Plotinus speaks of the One as 'that fountain always on'." Huston Smith
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"Reality is not only more unified but better than it seems to us. As God told the medieval mystic Dame Julian of Norwich, 'You will see for yourself that every sort of thing will be all right."
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"Mind has great power, and its nature is the same for all beings. So, at a very deep level, one person's enlightenment is enlightenment for all." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"God is the self of the universe, so in finding your true inner self, you find God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"The Christian 'unio mystico', Jewish 'devekut', Muslin 'fana', Hindu 'samadhi', and Zen 'Kensho' manifest the same intense consciousness of ultimate reality's underlying unity and goodness."
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"All religions have forms of mysticism which emphasize direct awareness of and communion with the sacred. Hindu samadhi and Zen satori, Jewish devekut and Christian unio mystico, all describe intense consciousness of ultimate reality's underlying unity and goodness."
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"I do think we're all connected. When a part of society does something special, there are ripples." Rosalie Bertell, Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart
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"The story line in all religions tells of a happy ending that blossoms as a result of ordeals necessarily confronted and surmounted. These trials add to the ultimate glory." Huston Smith
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"We're all cast in the divine image, whether we're Eskimos or Hottentots, so we're more alike than otherwise." Huston Smith
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"Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine."
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"God doesn't just hear our prayers but prays them through us as well. There's a huge transformation when you forget your self and realize that your hands and eyes are God's. Once you're with, or the same as, God, you aren't praying for your own needs, because you have none." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression."
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"God is mysteriously the source of our true self." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"All religions are equally valid means to the same end: awakening the selfless, unconditional love that…is unreservedly given to all without expectations."
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