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Us Quotes by Thomas Berry
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that…
- Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
- If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without…
- As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we…
- We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is…
- Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living…
- There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.…
- We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
- The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
- We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality…
- We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common…
- The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the…
- The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of…
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