“The universe shows the holy Oneness of Being. This is our home. We might even say, this is who we are. All of us are this one being. We human beings are supported by everything the universe does with its various interactions that make the galaxies in their clusters and the stars in their attendant planets, some of which have the right conditions for biochemistry, which evolves to the point of self-consciousness and knowledge of all these universe interactions. When we are conscious and knowing, it’s the universe that is conscious and knowing. And our consciousness and our knowing are still working in the same pattern: diversifying, interacting, unifying. We are not alien or strange or different. We are the universe’s own.”
God’s Ecstacy:The Creation of a Self-Creating World p. 15, by Beatrice Bruteau.