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"Life is no accident. It has derived from an Ultimate Source that is divine." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau) |
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"The Divine Mother revealed to me that…it was she who had become everything…that everything was full of consciousness. The image was consciousness, the altar was consciousness…the door-sills were consciousness… I found everything in the room soaked as it were in bliss – the bliss of God… That was why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that all this WAS the Divine Mother – even the cat." Sri Ramakrishna, 19th century Hindu saint Ecstatic Journey, The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience (Sophy Burnham) |
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"I know that God is within each one of us, within everything." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community) |
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"God acts in all things from within….God works at the heart of all activity." Thomas Aquinas, ST I, q. 105, a. 5 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox) |
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"God is the matter and form of the universe. Everything exists in Him." Sefer Yetzirah Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar) |
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"Evolution is simply Spirit-in-action in all domains." Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (Ken Wilber) |
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"God is seated in the hearts of all." Bhagavad Gita Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor) |
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"God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop." Meister Eckhart One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox) |
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“Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.” The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) |
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"Matter is nothing more than the.. effect of the emanative energy of the Deity." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky) |
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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh) |
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"God is found not only in the light and glory of creation but also in absolute darkness." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox) |
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"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." A Tree Full of Angels (Macrina Wiederkehr) |
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“The supra-divine transcendentally one God dwells indivisibly in every individual.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief) |
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"The God-presence is within and without all that exists." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young) |
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"In reality all are united and vitalised by the omnipresent divine Life." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson) |
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"God is the one in whom 'we live and move and have our being' (Acts 17:28). Without God's sustaining presence, we cannot even breathe or think, let alone accomplish anything." Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.) |
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"Everything in the material world has a certain flavor or fragrance, like the flavor and fragrance in a flower, or in the earth, water, fire or air. The uncontaminated flavor, the original flavor which permeates everything, is Krsna [Krishna]....Krsna consciousness is active in every sphere." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada) |
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"God is One and Alone and no other exists with him. God is the One, the One who has made everything." Sir E. A. W. Budge, 'From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt' The Garden of the Golden Flower, The Journey to Spiritual Fulfilment (Longfield Beatty) |
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"The Shalom of the Holy; the disclosure of the gracious Shekinah; Divine Wisdom; the empowering Matrix; She, in whom we live and move and have our being – She comes; She is here." Rosemary Ruether The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox) |
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"God is a creator with a passion for beauty and perfection. We stand amazed at the intricacy and beauty of His creation." Behold Your God (Agnes Sanford) |
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"Zeus is air, Zeus is earth, Zeus is heaven; Zeus is all things." Aeschylus, 'Heliades', fragment 70 The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell) |
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"The Goddess in all her manifestations was a symbol of the unity of all life in Nature." Marija Gimbutas, 'The Language of the Goddess' One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox) |
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"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant) |
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"Because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: 'In him we live and move and have our being.' (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, 'God is 'higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.' (Confessions 3, 6, 11)" Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various) |