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Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning
Winifred Gallagher
The author interviews several people who are spiritual geniuses, those who are masters of Life's meaning and how to express this in their life experiences.

1 "God is mysteriously the source of our true self." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

2 "Plotinus speaks of the One as 'that fountain always on'." Huston Smith

3 "Once one has truly realized the mind's true nature…you just see incredibly expansive interconnection." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun

4 "Pure consciousness, called the universal Self, is all that exists."

5 "Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression."

6 "Things are more integrated, unified, whole than they seem to us." Huston Smith

7 "When you talk about God, you're talking about what connects everything to everything else." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

8 "We're all cast in the divine image, whether we're Eskimos or Hottentots, so we're more alike than otherwise." Huston Smith

9 "I do think we're all connected. When a part of society does something special, there are ripples." Rosalie Bertell, Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart

10 "Pray to make your question clearer, then the answer will come." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit

11 "God is the holy one of all being through whom everything is connected to everything else." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

12 "God loves us a billion times more than a mother! Far beyond anything we can experience in our minds and intellects!" Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother

13 "Find the divine in everything. There has to be a part of you that knows that, at the end of the day, it's all working for God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

14 "The awareness that comes out of prayer and the stillness of listening to the Spirit is releasing an energy for a new beginning. For now, we're in that place where we're groaning with all creation to be born anew." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit

15 "Physics, biology, and other sciences increasingly reveal a complementary picture of the universe as a vast web of interrelationships."

16 "Mind has great power, and its nature is the same for all beings. So, at a very deep level, one person's enlightenment is enlightenment for all." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun

17 "God is the self of the universe, so in finding your true inner self, you find God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

18 "The whole world is much more globally connected. That means we're aware of our neighbors as being fully human just as they are, not as we think they should be. We can't go backwards from this point. We've got to move forward." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit

19 "Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine."

20 "The sacred isn't just 'up there' or in some afterlife but down here, right now."

21 "The Christian 'unio mystico', Jewish 'devekut', Muslin 'fana', Hindu 'samadhi', and Zen 'Kensho' manifest the same intense consciousness of ultimate reality's underlying unity and goodness."

22 "There's only oneness." Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother

23 "I believe people are sacramental – the means by which God communicates God's nature to us." Dr. Tony Campolo, American Baptist minister

24 "We're each part of something that's much bigger and better than what meets the eye, and if we keep that in mind, our hearts will be in the right place. Life will be all right, because its ups and downs will be seen as what they are – threads in a great fabric whose beauty depends on bright and dark colors."

25 "The world's apparent brokenness conceals a hidden unity." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite