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One Love
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   Posted 9/3/2012 3:18 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/llewellyn-vaughanlee/the-need-for-love-reflections-by-a-mystic_b_1840073.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

 "...what is revealed within the heart of the mystic, of the one who has given him or herself to love, is the great secret of creation: that love is always present. Love is present within our own heart, within every breath, within every cell of our body and the whole of creation. There is nothing other than love, and the whole of creation is a continual outpouring of divine love. The great mystery is then not that this love is always present, but that it is hidden from ordinary everyday human perception -- that we do not know how much we are loved -- how we are made of love. That we are love seeking love."

What is Christian Mysticism?

"The mystic is experientially united to a love that communicates itself to all persons and to all things. Therefore, the more deeply the mystic experiences union with God, the more deeply union with God’s creation is experienced. Transformed by and into Love itself, the mystic becomes creative, totally self-giving, radically concerned about others—in short, spiritually fecund."

Logos-Vision

"One can imagine that when human beings reintegrate their personhood in God, so that their hypostatic constitution will no longer resemble the divisions in creation, human apprehension will change fundamentally. The vision of the universe, its articulation in space and in time, will cease to function at all, resembling more and more the hypostatic "apprehension" of the universe by the Logos himself, for whom the whole universe in its spatial and temporal span exists as an instant of truth, as the "eighth" boundless day, the aeon with no duration."


Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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One Love
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   Posted 9/3/2012 3:27 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Said elsewhere...

Holy Idea: Holy Love

Holy Love is the recognition that all is one and that the oneness is ultimately benevolent and supportive. From this perspective we truly experience the well-known spiritual assertion that everything actually is made from Divine Love. When we truly know this, we relax our ego activity and trust Being to support us. It is almost unfathomable to the ego mind that not only could we be loved by the Divine, but that we are actually made of that love. The knowledge lets us move through our lives with deep compassion, nobility, and unshakable inner peace.

We can also see how Holy Love relates to the virtue of Action, because love itself has a dynamic affect on our souls. What transforms our lives more powerfully than love? What transforms our sense of ourselves more profoundly? Love is not static: it is living, dynamic force that melts down all barriers and boundaries, constantly working to restore our awareness to its pristine unity with Truth. In Holy Love, our sense of separateness dissolves, and we know ourselves as arising from the brilliant light of Divine Love that creates and sustains the universe.


Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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Similitude
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   Posted 9/3/2012 7:46 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
When we truly know this, we relax our ego activity
 
That, indeed, is a large part of why people mis-relate. Not only do human egos tend to be characterized by over-blown senses of entitlement, but that very misunderstanding puts humans on a road of greater and greater error in their inferences about how humans need to act to rightly-relate (i.e., act unto greater goods and/or lesser evils).


 

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