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Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

1 "It feels as if everyone who acts compassionately, works to raise consciousness, to save the planet, to make a difference in some significant way is linked to everyone else who also does." Jean Shinoda Bolen, 'Crossing to Avalon'

2 "We are vessels containing the Holy One."

3 "Looking deeply at any one thing, we see the whole cosmos. The one is made of the many."

4 "Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us." Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian journalist

5 "Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbors, your enemies and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even the galaxies."

6 "God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally in the present now." Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic

7 "In each of us is a seed of understanding. That seed is God." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist author and activist

8 "If I deny the oneness of man, I deny the oneness of God. Therefore I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity, I am hungry and incomplete." Norman Cousins, American editor

9 "I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent." Mahatma Gandhi

10 "Practice reverence for life. The sacred is in, with, and under all things of the world. Respond with appropriate respect and awe."

11 "The world is alive and moving toward you with rare epiphanies and wonderful surprises. Remember you are standing on holy ground."

12 "Our lives extend beyond our skins, in radical interdependence with the rest of the world." Joanna Macy

13 "Your encounters with others reveal your connection with the Oneness."

14 "The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things – all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals. All things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and their own purpose." Rolling Thunder, Native American elder

15 "Everything is multiplicity within unity….In the image of God who created them, all beings are at once one and many from the galaxy to the electron." Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, 'Abide in Love'

16 "The moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community." Howard Thurman

17 "The real world…is not a world of isolate things, but of processes in concert." William Bryant Logan, 'Dirt'

18 "No matter what form our job or activity takes, the content is the same as everyone else's: we are here to minister to human hearts. If we talk to anyone, or see anyone, or even think of anyone, then we have the opportunity to bring more love into the universe." Marianne Williamson, 'A Return to Love'

19 "The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist'

20 "Even the common articles made for daily use become endowed with beauty when they are loved."

21 "Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically." Madeleine L'Engle

22 "We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."

23 "All things are interconnected. What happens in one place affects all places."

24 "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Teresa

25 "All the inhabitants of the world – the trees, flowers, fields, streams, hills, rocks, dolphins, bears, birds, and babies – are our relations, as Native Americans express it."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite