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The Unity of Reality
Michael vonBruck
God, God-Experience, and meditation in the Hindu-Christian dialogue

1 "The Absolute is in all experiences for there is nothing which is not an explication or manifestation of what we call the Absolute….the Absolute is not the sum of all the parts, but the unity of part and whole."

2 "Brahman is one and is everything, above everything, outside everything, beyond everything and yet in everything….Brahman is the real self of all beings."

3 "Love is the very structure of the one reality."

4 "When the dialogue partner becomes for me a source of my own self-understanding, he/she is also a source of my understanding of God."

5 "Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."

6 "God is relationship within the moments of one movement which constitutes his being."

7 "Our 'own' consciousness is like a light which is switched on in the meeting with another. What is new in today's interreligious situation could be described as a worldwide and conscious application of this principle to interreligious dialogue, with the goal of cooperation in all areas of life."

8 "Only when we can treat others….as a thou and as a source for our self-understanding is true brotherhood/sisterhood possible between all peoples."

9 "The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."

10 "Unifying love fully reaches its goal in a suprahistorical being-with and being-in that involves both God and humans. For God is so fully present to and in all that no other source of light is needed to enable us to live and be enlightened (Rev. 22:5)."

11 "Each person's destiny is truly integrated into a final beyond-individual and transpersonal connectedness of the one reality."

12 "Everything is grounded in consciousness of the whole. The whole is always there and awaits our receptivity."

13 "There is no chaos, forsaken by God, but only the one reality as an ordered whole, filled with divine power."

14 "Everything that exists, exists in God whose life it shares."

15 "Humans are a true mirror-image of God. They project the manifold, but remain one and also know it, or at least can come to know it, because their true nature as pure consciousness is the integrating power of the One."

16 "The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."

17 "God is the human person's true being."

18 "In an image from the German mystics, human life is like a flower, which willingly unfolds in order to receive the rays of the sun."

19 "Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of love."

20 "Through the unifying power of love of the Spirit, creation reaches completion; i.e., it attains its essence."

21 "Human freedom consists in knowing the unity of atman (the Self) and the cosmic order."

22 "Our lives reflect divine creativity. Through our relationship to all other forms or manifestations of divine life we are continually expanding, concretizing, and realizing God's creativity."

23 "It could be said that Jesus' experience both contains advaitic [non-dualistic] experience and proceeds towards a goal. It reaches its climax in the union of a personal encounter: i.e., it is in a perpetual dynamic of becoming one."

24 "The world…is God's creation and, as such, is a determined moment in God's self-realization."

25 "The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite