Showing posts with label Thomas Berry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Berry. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2021

each is fulfilled in the other






The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. 

Each is fulfilled in the other:
 the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,
 the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self.
 
 Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy 
from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries.

New fields of energy become available to support the human venture.
 These new energies find expression and support in celebration. 
For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration.

It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.




~ Thomas Berry





Sunday, September 6, 2020

earth's desire





To be seen
in her loveliness 

to be tasted
in her delicious
fruits

to be listened to
in her teaching

to be endured
in the severity
of her discipline

to be experienced
as the maternal
source
whence we come

the destiny
to which we
return.




~ Thomas Berry


The basic mood of the future might well be one of confidence in the continuing revelation that takes place in and through the Earth. If the dynamics of the Universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the sun, and formed the Earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and the seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries, there is reason to believe that this same guiding process is precisely what has awakened in us our present understanding of ourselves and our relation to this stupendous process. Sensitized to such guidance from the very structure and functioning of the Universe, we can have confidence in the future that awaits the human venture.

"The New Story" The Dream of the Earth