Quotes about Existence

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God

Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

Remember, "God" is just a word for Reality—with a Face! And occasionally Interface (which some call "prayer" or "love").

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

Everything visible, without exception, is the outpouring of God. What else could it really be? "Christ" is a word for the Primordial Template ("Logos") through whom "all things came into being, and not one thing had its being except through him" (John 1:3).

It is impossible to make individuals feel sacred inside of a profane, empty, or accidental universe.

All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;

The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God

For Scotus, as for Bonaventure, the Trinity is the absolute beginning point—and ending point too. Outpouring Love is the inherent shape of the universe, and when we love, only then do we fully exist in this universe. We do not need to "understand" what is happening, or who God is, before we can live in love. The will to love precedes any need to fully understand what we are doing, the Franciscan School would say.