Quotes about Existence

Love is the one eternal thing and takes away your foundational fear of death. This is very good stuff.

My starting point is that we're already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is

We do not really know what it means to be human unless we know God. And, in turn, we do not really know God except through our own broken and rejoicing humanity.

Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.

God's greatest ally is reality itself. God's greatest revelation is what is (see Romans 1:20)—not what we want it to be, and not even what it should be—not abstract theories but concrete encounters.

Begin with a concrete moment of encounter, based in this physical world, and the soul universalizes from there, so that what is true here becomes true everywhere else too.

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.

What was God up to in those first moments of creation? Was God totally invisible before the universe began? Or is there even such a thing as "before"? Why did God create at all? What was God's purpose in creating? Is the universe itself eternal? Or is the universe a creation in time as we know it—like Jesus himself?

Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?

Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit, "Invoked or not invoked, God is still present."*3

Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.