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Transhuman technology signifies that reality is a process constituted by a drive for transcendence. Nature, in a sense, is never satisfied with itself; it always presses to be more and for novelty. When we participate in this drive for new possibilities, we participate also in God. This is the dimension of holiness in technology. When we are immersed in the drive tor transcendence, we share in the ultimate depths of reality we call God. The myth of Adam has created enormous divisions in science and religion and has stifled human evolution. Transhumansist technologies, symbolized by the cyborg, provide hope for a more unified world ahead – if we develop and create technologies with this aim in mind.

Ilia Delio, “Why Transhumanism will Transform the Church” – Nov. 17. 2014 - Global Sisters Report.

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If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is not competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

From: All Great Quotes, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, by John O’Donohue

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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)