Many / One

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1		"We have a responsibility to give back the cherished blessing of our lives with grace and gratitude. We must return blessing for blessing. Generativity and creativity have been built into the universe from the start."

2		"Humanity has the power and responsibility to increase the glory that is the divine presence in the cosmos."

3		"The divine mystery and miracle of existence is laid bare in the unique existence of each atom, each galaxy, each tree, bird, fish, dog, flower, star, rock, and human."

4		"Because all creatures contain the Word of God and express it, there is a radical equality of being that needs to be reverenced."

5		"Each of us displays a different aspect of the divine face."

6		"God created the soul in His own image and likeness." St. Teresa of Avila

7		"Creatures can be called God's words, because they manifest God's mind just like effects manifest their causes." Thomas Aquinas

8		"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

9		"Compassion is the 'keen awareness of the interdependence of all living things which are all part of one another and involved in one another,' as Thomas Merton observed."

10		"May we grant one another the opportunity to live out our dreams, to care for the wounded child in one another, and to pass on to others still unborn an earth as alive and diverse and wondrous as the one we have inherited."

11		"What is it we are always being told to behold in Jesus' parables? The divine presence everywhere."

12		"A river passes through many countries and each claims it for its own. But there is only one river." Sheikh Ragip Frager, 'Love is the Wine: Talks of a Sufi Master'

13		"The whole is present in each part, in each level of existence. The living reality, which is total and unbroken and undivided, is in everything." David Bohm

14		"The heartbeat of the Cosmic Christ fills the universe with overflowing love, binding all things together on earth and in heaven."

15		"The Cosmic Christ is the crucified and suffering one in every creature, just as much as the Cosmic Christ is the radiant one, the divine glistening and glittering in every creature."

16		"This is, after all, what Jesus came to teach persons, is it not? We are all divine sons and daughters with divine dignity and responsibilities."

17		"Like fish in water and the water in the fish, creation is in God and God is in creation."

18		"In the Greek Fathers and in the medieval mystics, one of the most common themes in Cosmic Christ theology is a celebration of how common and omnipresent divinity is. Divinity is found in all creatures."

19		"All creatures are interdependent." Meister Eckhart

20		"Beloved child, come swiftly to Me, for I am truly in you. Remember this: The smallest soul of all is still the daughter of the Creator." Mechtild of Magdeburg

21		"Healing is still possible. This is the hope that the Cosmic Christ, wounded but resurrected, holds out to our times."

22		"It is Love that moves the universe."

23		"God's Word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. The Word manifests in every creature." Hildegard of Bingen

24		"Compassion is our universal heritage, our God-origin and our God-destiny. Compassion unites us, it forms the common 'field' that all creatures share."

25		"The holy omnipresence of the Divine One [is] in all things."