| SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
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SPIRITUAL LITERACY, READING THE SACRED IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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"We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities."
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"Our lives extend beyond our skins, in radical interdependence with the rest of the world." Joanna Macy
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"Accept that you are a child of God. Sing your own song with gusto. Fulfill your mission as a copartner with the Holy One in the unfolding drama of the universe."
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"In every moment of genuine love, we are dwelling in God and God in us." Paul Tillich, contemporary Protestant theologian
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"Seen from space, Earth has no national borders, no military zones, no visible fences. Quite the opposite. You can see how storm systems swirling above a continent may well affect the grain yield half a world away. The entire atmosphere of the planet – all the air we breathe, all the sky we fly through, even the ozone layer – is visible as the thinnest rind. The picture eloquently reminds one that Earth is a single organism." Diane Ackerman, 'The Rarest of the Rare'
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"When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time….If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos….When you touch one, you touch many, when you touch many, you touch one….Look more deeply, and you will see yourself as penetrating everywhere, interbeing with everyone and everything." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, 'Cultivating the Mind of Love'
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"Treat everyone you meet just like you would if you just had your breath taken away by the most beautiful person in the world. Treat each situation in the day as though you were head-over-heels in love." Scout Cloud Lee, Native American elder
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"If I deny the oneness of man, I deny the oneness of God. Therefore I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity, I am hungry and incomplete." Norman Cousins, American editor
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"Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us." Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian journalist
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"We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."
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"The world is alive and moving toward you with rare epiphanies and wonderful surprises. Remember you are standing on holy ground."
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"This is the heart of our humanity – being here, open and giving to others."
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"In a real sense all life is interrelated. All people are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Love is the pattern that stitches the universe together."
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"It feels as if everyone who acts compassionately, works to raise consciousness, to save the planet, to make a difference in some significant way is linked to everyone else who also does." Jean Shinoda Bolen, 'Crossing to Avalon'
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"Who is our neighbor? The Samaritan? The outcast? The enemy? Yes, yes, of course. But it is also the whale, the dolphin and the rainforest. Our neighbor is the entire community of life, the entire universe. We must love it all as our self." Brian Patrick, author
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"We are here to awaken from the illusion of separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist poet
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"I have often felt myself to be a point of light, connected to everyone I have ever loved or mattered to, each also being a point of light, in turn connected to those they love, so that somehow we are all part of a vast web of twinkling lights." Jean Shinoda Bolen, 'Crossing to Avalon'
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"God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally in the present now." Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic
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"Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbors, your enemies and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even the galaxies."
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"Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of apparent silence." Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi teacher, musician and poet
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"The real world…is not a world of isolate things, but of processes in concert." William Bryant Logan, 'Dirt'
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"The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist'
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"To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all our attainments." Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologian
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"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Teresa
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