If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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