"Throughout my life, by means of my life, the world has become almost completely luminous from within…Such has been my experience in contact with the earth – the diaphany of the Divine at the heart of the universe on fire….Christ; his heart; a fire: capable of penetrating everywhere and, gradually, spreading everywhere."
The Divine Milieu - Pierre Teilhard deChardin
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LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"The birth of every child is important, not less than the birth of a Buddha. We, too, are a Buddha, a Buddha-to-be, and we continue to be born every minute."
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"The teaching of Jesus is His living body, and this living body of Christ manifests itself whenever and wherever His teaching is practiced."
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"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."
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"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone."
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"The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."
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"All of us have the seed of the Holy Spirit in us, the capacity of healing, transforming, and loving."
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"You are interrelated to everyone and everything…your every act is linked with the whole of humankind and the whole cosmos."
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"Real love never ends."
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"Each thing depends on all other things to be. That is interdependence. Nothing can be by itself alone. It has to inter-be with all other things."
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"According to Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha is still alive….If you are attentive enough, you will be able to hear his teachings from the voice of a pebble, a leaf, or a cloud in the sky."
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"In Buddhism, faith means confidence in our and others' abilities to wake up to our deepest capacity of loving and understanding."
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"A human being is a mini-God, a micro-theos who has been created in order to participate in the divinity of God."
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"Everything is linked to the presence of God in every moment."
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"In Christianity, faith means trust in God, the One who represents love, understanding, dignity, and truth."
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"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe."
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"We are all mothers of the Buddha because we are all pregnant with the potential for awakening. If we know how to take care of our baby Buddha by practicing mindfulness in our daily lives, one day the Enlightened One will reveal himself or herself to us."
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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
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"I urge you to study and practice the best values of your religious tradition and to share them with young people in ways they can understand. If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out."
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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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"When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy."
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"There has never been a human being who is not alive with God's own life breath." Brother David Stendl-Rast, O.S.B., foreword
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"There is the Buddha within ourselves, who transcends space and time. This is the living Buddha, the Buddha of the ultimate reality, the one who transcends all ideas and notions and is available to us at any time."
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"The practices of prayer and meditation help us touch the most valuable seeds that are within us, and they put us in contact with the ground of our being."
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"The seed of the Kingdom of God is within us. If we know how to plant that seed in the moist soil of our daily lives, it will grow and become a large bush on which many birds can take refuge."
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