Quotes about Unity

Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will get us all to our destination together in love.

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

Without the mediation of Christ, we will be tempted to overplay the distance and the distinction between God and humanity.

What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every "thing" in the universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love? What if Christ refers to an infinite horizon that pulls us from within and pulls us forward too? What if Christ is another name for everything—in its fullness?

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. —Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212—1282)

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Everything I see and know is indeed one "uni-verse," revolving around one coherent center. This Divine Presence seeks connection and communion, not separation or division—except for the sake of an even deeper future union.

When people get together in solidarity and unity, not out of power but out of powerlessness, then Christ is in their midst.

But God loves things by becoming them. God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.

Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

The "adepts" in all religions are always forgiving, compassionate, and radically inclusive. They do not create enemies, and they move beyond the boundaries of their own "starter group" while still honoring them and making use of them.