Many / One

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1		"Prayer does nothing to make God more present, for God is always present. Prayer is our response to the presence of God in our lives."

2		"God has pitched a tent in our hearts. We are dwelling places for the Beloved."

3		"Remember the sanctuary within. You carry God wherever you go."

4		"You live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb."

5		"The incarnational aspect of Christianity reminds us that all of life is full of God. God is in all."

6		"Implanted in us is a seed of the divine."

7		"There is a table to which we are invited each day. It offers us trees and stones, sunshine and stars, eagles and angels, roots and water, joy and sorrow, earth and fire, flesh and blood, storms and memories, words and silence, spiders and webs, night and day, death and life, crusts and loaves. It is the table that Love prepares for us each moment. It is the table of daily life. Freely we are invited to come and eat."

8		"Trust in God's embrace."

9		"I believe there is a Great Weaver in the heavens, and she is slowly spinning a web that will make heaven and earth one. Let's not break the sacred web."

10		"It still all comes down to the same thing. Life is beautiful. And I believe in God. And I want to be there right in the thick of what people call 'horror' and still be able to say: Life is beautiful." Etty Hillesum, 29-year-old Jewish woman who died at Auschwitz, November, 1943, 'An Interrupted Life'

11		"Think of the words that have been spoken, written, and sung throughout the ages. The human story is continually told through the great works of literature, history, psychology, science, and so on. Our response to all words, if we want them to feed us, is to listen and connect them to our lives."

12		"O Most Creaive One, ever bringing me to new life…O Most Powerful One, empowering me for life's journey…O Indwelling One, calling me to my Center…O Beloved One, loving me as I am."

13		"Two people with unlit lamps can give hope to one another as they remember together the One who is their Light."

14		"To be divinized is your destiny. Your original union yearns for a place in your life."

15		"God's grace is more available than we dare to believe. It's a bit like the little fish who swam up to its mother and asked, 'What is the ocean?' 'You're in it', said the mother. But the little fish swam away disappointed, saying, 'No, this is just water. I want to know what the ocean is.'"

16		"Linger awhile over each person you meet, each person you live with, each relationship, even those people you see walking through the crowds, the strangers you do not know. Look on them with love. Contemplate them. Take them into your heart."

17		"We have the capacity to be filled with the utter fullness of God."

18		"Fairy tales and myths have often been used as vehicles to teach a truth that is too deep for ordinary words."

19		"Our birth cry is a divine cry. It is God's cry meshed with our own."

20		"My tears know more than I know. That's why it's so important to listen to them, to pray with them."

21		"We are rooted in an earth that God has proclaimed good. Here on this good earth we have become flesh with the seed of God hidden in us."

22		"Life doesn't work without love."

23		"There is nothing – no thing, no person, no experience, no thought, no joy or pain – that cannot be harvested and used for nourishment on our journey to God."

24		"Made of the earth, yet steeped in eternity; frail human dust, yet soaked with infinity."

25		"We are frail and glorious creatures. Our frailty need not cripple us; our glory need not be denied. Embraced and cherished as part of the process that we are, these qualities become God's greatest advantage in our lives."