We all know that each of us has a unique finger print. No two people have the same retinal patterns. We all have individuality, unique personalities. No two people are alike. Even identical twins have uniqueness. If we look around we see the same thing in all of creation. There aren't two things that are … Continue reading Uniqueness is oneness
Tag: contemplation
What love looks like
In the last two posts I've talked about motivation and how we are the divine manifestation of love in this reality. We are love, the essence and substance and product of love. We are what other-centered, unconditional love looks like. God, being love, expressed Himself as love to become us. In doing so, He took … Continue reading What love looks like
The Lego Moment
"OUR discovery of God is, in a way, God’s discovery of us." (Thomas Merton) The contemplatives and the mystics (which are really the same thing) talk about "living in the present moment." Actually there are many traditions that have discovered the divine power of living in the present moment. This can be a difficult concept … Continue reading The Lego Moment
Consenting to His creative love
A TREE gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him. It “consents,” so to speak, to His creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree … Continue reading Consenting to His creative love
Who is Trudy?
The “spiritual life” is then the perfectly balanced life in which the body with its passions and instincts, the mind with its reasoning and its obedience to principle and the spirit with its passive illumination by the Light and Love of God form one complete man who is in God and with God and from … Continue reading Who is Trudy?