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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Dorothy Day Quotes from: goodreads website
God is love and love is the core of evolution; so too, love is God, and God is the core of evolution. Through billions of years with billions of violent events – cosmic cataclysms, massive explosions, biological extinctions, war, cannibalism, tornadoes, earthquakes, death –divine love has persevered without perishing because divine love can never be extinguished. Love pushes through what appears to be dead and breathes it into new life. Love forever seeks more union, more being, and more consciousness. That is why humanity has no real future and cannot evolve without returning to love at the core of its being. The law of progress and the law of love must be joined together for the future of earthly life.
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love, by Ilia Delio, p. 135.
Humanity is on a heroic journey of development and discovery with three major stages – separation, initiation, and return. The core narrative concerns our movement from a long stage of separation, and into a time of profound initiation, and then to a long journey of return. After thousands of years of separation and differentiation, humanity is now moving into a time of initiation where we face the consequences of that separation. From that initiation may come insight, connection, and a return to the Earth, one another, and the cosmos.
From “Change the Story to Change the World” an article by Duane Elgin
from Huff Post Media, 04/02/2012.
When his followers wanted to proclaim him the Messiah, the divinely anointed king of Israel who would inaugurate the reign of God’s justice upon the earth, Jesus shrank from all that and said, strongly and unequivocally, “My kingdom is not of this world.” Where is it then? Jim Marion’s wonderfully insightful and contemporary suggestion is that the Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness; it is not a place you go to, but a place you come from. It is a whole new way of looking at the world, a transformed awareness that literally turns this world into a different place. Marion suggests specifically that the Kingdom of Heaven is Jesus’s own favourite way of describing a state we would nowadays call a “nondual consciousness” or “unitive consciousness.”
The Wisdom Jesus, by Cynthia Bourgeault, p. 30.
“The world must have a God, but our concept of God must be extended as the dimensions of our world are extended,” wrote Teilhard almost a century ago. In the early twentieth century, evolution had changed everything, he noted. And he predicted that only those religions would survive that were willing to develop forms of their traditions that organically embrace the reality of an evolutionary worldview.
Carter Phipps interview with John Haught on “bigthink.com.”
