Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the SacredBarry McDonald This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens. |
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... nature , will appreciate this book because it provides a more convincing argument for the protection of the environment and the survival of Mother Earth and its inhabitants . This book gives a valuable basis for any serious spiritual ...
... nature , will appreciate this book because it provides a more convincing argument for the protection of the environment and the survival of Mother Earth and its inhabitants . This book gives a valuable basis for any serious spiritual ...
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... Nature by Satish Kumar 1. Seeing God Everywhere Frithjof Schuon 2. A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on Spirit in Nature Tenzin Gyatso , His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ix xi xvii xxi 1 17 3. The Firmament Sheweth His Handiwork : Re ...
... Nature by Satish Kumar 1. Seeing God Everywhere Frithjof Schuon 2. A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on Spirit in Nature Tenzin Gyatso , His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ix xi xvii xxi 1 17 3. The Firmament Sheweth His Handiwork : Re ...
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Essays on Nature and the Sacred Barry McDonald. Angelus Silesius Han Shan Ortha nan Gaidheal Robert Herrick Poetry 15 28 51 71 Jami 101 Tewa Hildegard of Bingen Basho 107 131 136 Shabistari Eskimo 160 169 Alfred Lord Tennyson 191 ...
Essays on Nature and the Sacred Barry McDonald. Angelus Silesius Han Shan Ortha nan Gaidheal Robert Herrick Poetry 15 28 51 71 Jami 101 Tewa Hildegard of Bingen Basho 107 131 136 Shabistari Eskimo 160 169 Alfred Lord Tennyson 191 ...
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... natural world ; and just as we learn something about the nature of an artist through his art , we may discover the presence of the Creator in His creation . Whether the Absolute was referred to as God , Brahman , Allah , Wakan Tanka ...
... natural world ; and just as we learn something about the nature of an artist through his art , we may discover the presence of the Creator in His creation . Whether the Absolute was referred to as God , Brahman , Allah , Wakan Tanka ...
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... nature of man is theomorphic ; we are " made in the image of God . " Consequently , we have a sacred responsibility ... nature , which comes from the Latin nascitura , means , " to give birth . " Our ancestors , who lived out of doors in ...
... nature of man is theomorphic ; we are " made in the image of God . " Consequently , we have a sacred responsibility ... nature , which comes from the Latin nascitura , means , " to give birth . " Our ancestors , who lived out of doors in ...
Contents
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Christianity and the Survival of Creation 333 | 53 |
The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of | 73 |
Our Mother Earth | 103 |
Flower Viewing | 133 |
Of Metaphysics and Polynesian Navigation | 161 |
Hierophanic Nature | 193 |
Supreme Archetype of Aesthetic | 215 |
Creation the Image of God | 241 |
Becoming Part of It | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 311 |
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Page 60 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 59 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 60 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your' hands are full of blood. "Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do evil : learn to do well ;. seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 187 - You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
Page 62 - And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath...
Page 59 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less this house that I have builded...
Page 29 - Thou art the fire, Thou art the sun, Thou art the air, Thou art the moon, Thou art the starry firmament, Thou art Brahman Supreme: Thou art the waters — thou, The creator of all! Thou art woman, thou art man, Thou art the youth, thou art the maiden, Thou art the old man tottering with his staff; Thou facest everywhere. Thou art the dark butterfly, Thou art the green parrot with red eyes, Thou art the thunder cloud, the seasons, the seas. Without beginning art thou, Beyond time, beyond space. Thou...