"We need to move: from a spirituality of……" — Thomas Berry
"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 of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us.."
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72 Quotes by Thomas Berry
Thomas Berry has 72 quotes on this site.
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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of…
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Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a…
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if…
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to…
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Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of…
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred…
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all…
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down…
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The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world…
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human…
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More Alienation Quotes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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