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The reign of God,  … is the religious dimension of human life and requires a real conversion of values, a new heart: “Where your heart is, there your treasure lies.” The biblical word cor is not the physical heart but the deep inner core human existence, the soul, the mind or the realm of consciousness. If caring for creation begins with the place of the heart, and the heart is the seat of consciousness, then we might rephrase the words of Jesus as: “Where your consciousness is, there your treasure lies.”  Where is human consciousness today?

Global Sisters Report.  Ilia Delio, Mar. 4, 2015.  “Why the Earth Won’t Green Without Us.”

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The religion of Jesus … is about God’s unconditional love and endless creativity. It is about the unlimited potential for goodness in people, for godliness in the world, for beauty in the earth and in human souls. It is about the “kingdom,” the malchut, the union of God with people for unlimited creativity.

This is the treasure hidden and buried in the field (Matt.13:44), for which we should forsake all other pursuits, all other ways of envisioning our life and purpose in existence. Sell your petty ambitions, says Jesus and invest everything in this Great Work.  Join the big time. Enlarge your vision. You were made for something enormous. Open your eyes and see it!

The Holy Thursday Revolution by Beatrice Bruteau. p. 263.    

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The invitation is about participation, not mere observation. We are not journeying in the universe but with the universe. We are not concerned about living in an evolving world but co-evolving with our world. We are parts of a whole, much greater than the sum of its parts, and yet within each part we are interconnected with the whole.

Diarmuid O’Murchu, (/quotes/authors/diarmuid-omurchu/66054)

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What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make it otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.

Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox, Notable Quotes Website.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

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