Quotes About Connection

Encontramos a Dios en nosotros mismos, y nos encontramos a nosotros mismos en Dios.

Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.

Any kind of authentic God experience will usually feel like love or suffering, or both. It will connect you to Full Reality at ever-new breadths, and depths "until God will be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28).

When you look at any other person, a flower, a honeybee, a mountain—anything—you are seeing the incarnation of God's love for you and the universe you call home.

The Universal Christ is trying to communicate at the deepest intuitive level that there is only One Life, One Death, and One Suffering on this earth. We are all invited to ride the one wave, which is the only wave there is. Call it Reality, if you wish. But we are all in this together.

but we are the Body of Christ. "Christ" is not Jesus

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

Because far too many religious folks do not seriously pursue this "reverence humming within them," they do not recognize

Without the mediation of Christ, we will be tempted to overplay the distance and the distinction between God and humanity.

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Everything I see and know is indeed one "uni-verse," revolving around one coherent center. This Divine Presence seeks connection and communion, not separation or division—except for the sake of an even deeper future union.

It is impossible to make individuals feel sacred inside of a profane, empty, or accidental universe.

But God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.

Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

Authentic Christianity is not so much a belief system as a life-and-death system that shows you how to give away your life, how to give away your love, and eventually how to give away your death. Basically, how to give away—and in doing so, to connect with the world, with all other creatures, and with God.

Whatever we are living through, we are in it together. It is not a contest between us. We are good by one another's goodness; we are sinners by one another's sin. In other words, both love and sin are highly contagious.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.

More than anything else, the Spirit keeps us connected and safely inside an already existing flow, if we but allow it. We never "create" or earn the Spirit; we discover this inner abiding as we learn to draw upon our deepest inner life.

Ordinary people in times of shame and doubt needed an anamchara, or a "soul friend." Soon

Just because you do not have the right word for God does not mean you are not having the right experience.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.

But God loves things by becoming them.

all healthy spirituality will always have a truly "sexual" character to it, a desire for re-union. Religion is always, in one sense or another, about making one out of two! Cheap religion is invariably about maintaining the two and keeping things separate and apart. Think about that and see if it is not true.