Weekly Pause & Ponder

The universe is truly a symphony of the stars. And when our body-mind is in synch with this symphony, everything is spontaneous and effortless, and the synch with this symphony, everything is spontaneous and effortless, and the exuberance of the universe flows through us in joyful ecstasy. 

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature’s rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It’s that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature’s intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

        From: spiritlibrary.com/deepak-chopra/live-in-grace-dancing-with- the-universe. 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

“The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists.”

What does this mean?  It means you have discovered an unshakable confidence in the fact of nonduality – in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS . . . and I AM THAT.  A confidence in that which can never be seen or known is the very ground of the enlightened state.  Being is ungraspable, it’s unknowable, it’s ever elusive, and yet it is the only place you can find true confidence in life.  Why?  Because it is the very source of life itself.  

From Andrew Cohen Quotes (Author of Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening, www.goodreads.come/author/quotes/151698.Andrew-Cohen. 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The new art of living requires an awareness that learning constitutes the very process of the life of a human being and that when learning stops a person stops and a civilization dies. Learning is a process that has no end as long as one is in this world. The world itself is the primary school for learning and needs to be understood as that. Learning constitutes the deepest prayer of the human person, the deepest awareness that she or he is a modality of process reflecting the cosmogenesis as a whole, a microcosm in a beautiful macrocosm. 

MANIFESTO for a global civilization by Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, p. 47.

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“Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile – smile five times a day at someone you don’t really want to smile at at all – do it for peace. So let us radiate the peace of God and so light his light and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all … all hatred and love for power.”

Mother Theresa, Life in the Spirit, p. 85.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

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.