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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"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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"The world's apparent brokenness conceals a hidden unity." 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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"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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"Physics, biology, and other sciences increasingly reveal a complementary picture of the universe as a vast web of interrelationships."
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"The sacred isn't just 'up there' or in some afterlife but down here, right now."
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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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"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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"Pure consciousness, called the universal Self, is all that exists."
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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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"We're each part of something that's much bigger and better than what meets the eye, and if we keep that in mind, our hearts will be in the right place. Life will be all right, because its ups and downs will be seen as what they are – threads in a great fabric whose beauty depends on bright and dark colors."
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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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"God is the self of the universe, so in finding your true inner self, you find God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"There's only oneness." Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother
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"Pray to make your question clearer, then the answer will come." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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"God is mysteriously the source of our true self." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"The awareness that comes out of prayer and the stillness of listening to the Spirit is releasing an energy for a new beginning. For now, we're in that place where we're groaning with all creation to be born anew." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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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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"I understand God in terms of love, compassion, justice. The Qur'an says everything in the world has been created for a just purpose." Riffat Hassan, Muslim Feminist teacher
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"Despite the chaos and confusion around us, everything is all right."
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"Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression."
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"Do you see what people appear to be, or the sacred presence coming through them? Dr. Tony Campolo, American Baptist minister
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"The whole world is much more globally connected. That means we're aware of our neighbors as being fully human just as they are, not as we think they should be. We can't go backwards from this point. We've got to move forward." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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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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