MYSTICISM AND ECUMENISM
Robley Edward Whitson
An anthology of key texts from a variety of spiritual traditions, which richly convey how common is our search for the sacred.
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"God is absolutely One – in fact, Oneness."
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"God is Love. Love is One. One is All."
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"God is Love. Love is unity."
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"God is the only source of reality, and to reject this One-All is to reject one's selfhood."
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"God is Love because He is completely One, Oneness Itself."
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"We pray: asking, thanking, sorrowing, adoring – whatever the confrontation which living demands of us at the moment. But there is only one meaning to our prayer: the affirmation of the unity we have and seek in love."
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"There is remarkable agreement found among mystics of widely varying religious traditions."
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"I was so penetrated with a knowledge of eternal things that I wondered how I had ever needed to reason about them since they are as intimately present as a man is to himself." St. Augustine, 'Letter to Nebridius', 4:2
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"And at last I searched within, and I saw that God is still more interior to me than myself." St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Canticle of Canticles', 74:5
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"If a man lives a hundred years and engages the whole of his time and attention in religious offerings to the gods….all this is not equal to one act of pure love." 'Fa-Kheu-King-Tsu', VII
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"Wherever you turn yourselves to pray, there is the Face of Allah." Quran, 2:109
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"With hands stretched out in prayer for support, O Wise One with Righteousness, I will ask of you the acts of the Holy Spirit, that I may satisfy the will of Good Mind." The Hymns of Zarathustra
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"In its deepest significance love is a state of oneness or union with another."
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We are gathering together the primary insights of spirituality and bringing them together into one place.
This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
organized in terms of 39 primary categories. Quotes are randomized and appear in a different way at every click.
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We include
- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
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