Friday, November 16, 2018

The greatness of being human

A quote from American Cistercian priest Thomas Keating, who died on October 25.

The primary issue for the human family at its present level of evolutionary development is to become fully human. But that as we have seen, means rediscovering our connectedness to God.

He also believed that God is within reality so expansively that being surrendered to the present moment is to be present to him.

The spiritual journey is a training in consent to God's presence and to all reality.

Elsewhere he writes: Jesus allowed himself to experience the utmost suffering and rejection as part of being sent, thus manifesting the inner nature of Ultimate Reality as i finite compassion and forgiveness.

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