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Reflections on source, spirit, religion and god

"God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape." - AC/DC's road manager, Barry Taylor.

Cam Rogers • Tweet

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Alas my Muslim friends

I do not know myself

I am not Christian

I am not Jewish

I am not Zoroastrian

I am not Muslim either

am not of the earth

I am not of the wind

I am not of the water

I am not of the fire

I have seen both worlds

And call them one

My place is the placeless

A trace of traceless

I am not the body

I am not the mind

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The Source - Rumi With A View

Despite more than two thousand years of cultivating our individual spiritual capacities to awaken the Kingdom of God within us , it is now the absence of the Kingdom of God between us which threatens our very existence.

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God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.

Joseph Campbell • Joseph Campbell

Similarly, Steiner recommends that the individual think and act from a deeper and wider reality, understood in the Christian tradition as Christ , in the Hindu tradition as Krishna , in Buddhist tradition as Buddha , in the Chinese tradition as Tao , and in the Western philosophical monist tradition as the Self, or the Absolute.

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

God, we may say, sings us into being. He breathes forth a poem, and the poem is us: galaxies, planets, molecules, continents, animals, people. It is a beautiful poem, a glorious song, and somehow we are alive and in the middle of it.

Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry

St. Paul, “I live, no, not I but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

Steiner sees the incarnation of Christ as the instrument of a potentially universal transformation, one that aims to reunite the spiritual and physical.

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

God, in short, is not a being but is at once “beyond being” (in the sense that he transcends the totality of existing things) and also absolute “Being itself” (in the sense that he is the source and ground of all things).

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The Source - Rumi With A View

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Joseph Campbell • Joseph Campbell

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

Brad East • Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

Robert McDermott • The New Essential Steiner

David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God