An Inconvenient Truth

Either [people] get into this transcendental purity that doesn’t care about the earth and Gaia, or they merely identify with Gaia…. What we want to try to do ... is include both. ~Ken Wilber in dialog with Andrew Cohen, “Exploring the Future of Religion,” What Is Enlightenment magazine, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 85-6

I John 4:20, “He who says he loves God and hates the neighbor is a liar.” Namaste.

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The Great Tao

The great Tao covers everything like a flood.
It flows to the left and to the right.
The ten thousand things depend upon it
and it denies none of them.
It accomplishes its task yet claims no reward.
It clothes and feeds the ten thousand things
yet it does not attempt to control them….

The ten thousand things return to it,
even though it does not control them.

~Tao Te Ching, verse 24 http://www.thebigview.com/tao-te-ching/chapter34.html, via The Ecozoic, no. 1, 2008, p. 41

Spirit by another name. Namaste.

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A Tribute to Thomas Berry

A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS BERRY

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Thomas Berry writes of winter solstice celebration in the Cathedral. The gothic arch “takes on the shape of the uplifted throat of a wolf” who laments our present destiny and beseeches us to bring back the sun ... to let the flowers bloom, the rivers run and the living creatures live their wild, fierce, serene and abundant lives.

Out Over Nothing

[Using] Kierkegaard’s metaphor of being “suspended over 70,000 fathoms” … [we can be given to] see blessedness in suffering, revelation in mystery, certainty in uncertainty, and truth in absurdity. ~Josiah Thompson, The Lonely Labyrinth, p. 205

Kierkegaard talks about the religious sphere of depth faith as compared with the ethical or esthetic spheres. ~jpc

Out over 70,000 fathoms is where we live, in faith or mortal fear. Namaste.

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Apprehended in All*

Apprehend God in all things,
for God is in all things.
Every single creature is full of God
and is a book about God.
Every creature is a word of God.
If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature –
even a caterpillar –
I would never have to prepare a sermon.

So full of God is every creature.

~trans. Matthew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart, p. 14, via Herman Greene

“God” is in all things yet not contained in anything. Namaste.

* Note: poem of panentheism (God at the heart of all), not pantheism (God is all)

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Sunday Dialog CLXXIX

Nez: My student* said, “our minds fixate on partial visions … we forget the whole, the Earth … we become addicted.”

Journer: So what have we become addicted to?

Nez: Addicted to personal, family, national, and human needs.

Journer: But our destiny is bound up with the Earth. As the Earth goes, so do we.

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* Brian Swimme, The Universe Is a Green Dragon, p. 78
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Saturday Delight

And oh! The towering feeling

Just to know somehow you are near.

The overpowering feeling

That any second you may suddenly appear!

People stop and stare. They don’t bother me.

For there’s no where else on earth that I would rather be.

Let the time go by, I won’t care if I

Can be here on the street where you live.

~from “On the Street Where You Live” (lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner), My Fair Lady

Quite a song, especially when “you” goes transparent to the all as profound awareness happens, suddenly. ~jpc

“The overpowering feeling” when the other really appears. Namaste.

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Note: photos and a report of the northwest Profound Journey Dialog (PJD) http://www.transcribebooks.com/NWPJDreport.html we helped guide last weekend near Seattle, Washington, USA

That Reality, Our Reality

[The artist] always wants to press deeper and deeper to let the span of his [sic] perception spread wider and wider; till he unites with the whole of that Reality which he feels all about him and of which his own life is a part. ~Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism, pp. 20-21, via John Forbis

An agent of transparency, the artist helps us see the whole through its parts. ~jpc

Here’s to that reality of which we are a part. Namaste.

image: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, photo by Jana Bergdall