num_pages: 32
description: That God is present within us as the source of the unity of all life is an intuition so fundamental that it appears, even in similar ways, in many religious traditions. We have occasional intuitions of this unifying times when we seem to have an awareness that is not so much of God as of Life, experienced with a kind of sufficiency and coherence. Perhaps then we have an inkling of what Paul meant when he wrote, “. . . in him all things were created,” and, “. . . in him all things hold together” (Col. 1:16, 17).We have moments of intuition; we can also cultivate such moments, learning to expand our awareness. The practice, common in Buddhism, of “mindfulness,” is a means to that end. In a more western way, using the imagination, we can image ourselves and others as God’s temples; or we can imagine God’s presence as a fount of living water springing up within us (Jn. 4:14). We can use Ezekiel’s image of life-giving streams radiating outward from our own inner sanctuary. And so a stream of love-energy may bless every place we walk, every room we enter, every person we meet, every flower and every sow we see, and allow everything we encounter to “flower, from within, of self-blessing.”
language: English
title: Interconnections
titlecomplete: Interconnections
ratings_count: 1
series: Pendle Hill Pamphlets
publisher: UNKNO