@CarlMcColman An add. "The mystery of the Gospel" (Eph. 6:19) or the "Eternal Christ Mystery" (Rohr) accents destination. @brianmclaren: "Greek perfect is static but Hebrew good is _dynamic_." 1 Cor. 15:51: "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be _changed_."
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Copy of two consecutive tweets: What is unique about Christian mysticism when compared to other mystical traditions? Read the full article: Questions and Answers on Interspiritual Mysticism ▸ lttr.ai/ADOuH #Contemplation #Prayer #Mysticism Photograph of Thomas Merton standing with HH the Dalai Lama Carl McColman Retweeted Carl McColman “On the path heading back to God, the point of departure is humility and the point of destination is love.” Jean Leclercq, OSB
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 10/ As an inherently co-evolutionary phenomenon, therefore, such consciousness effects and requires a coherence attuned to a deeper flow of destiny, to the irresistible, onward, upward march of Life itself. So, if life isn’t an object, what is it, then? A quest for reality? Painting including the calligraphy: “God is not an object, rather a direction. Go as straight as possible to how it is.” Quote Tweet Well, yes, and Rilke: "God is a direction," Meister Eckhart: "You should observe, and have observed in which direction God urges you most of all to go," and quantum physicist David Bohm: “If we have a coherent approach to reality, reality will have a coherent approach to us.”
@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM Alpha and Omega. "When we believe in Jesus Christ, we’re believing in something much bigger than the historical incarnation that we call Jesus. Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time; Christ is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time."
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge Don’t get me wrong. Keating’s a giant. But his choice of ‘not as important’ powerfully affirms a direction as much as a cosmology. Does the sky-mind silence of non-dual consciousness suffice for a full Christian life? Again, our reality is as large as our experience.