*ALL - see WHOLE, COMPLETE, BOTH, ABSOLUTE, ONENESS
new world view that is whole and where nothing is separate from the All is now gradually emerging.(http://www.2near.com/edge/carl/enlight.html)
I was both a tiny piece of the universe and exactly the same size as the universe. "All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop" wrote Kabir. Like when you're looking at an optical illusion for a long time, suddenly your cognizance shifts and there you can clearly see that the 2 vases are actually 2 faces. Once you've seen through the optical illusion, you can never not see it again. So this is God. (Eat, Pray, Love, p199)
Plotinus wrote: Each being contains in itself the whole intelligible world. Therefore, All is everywhere. Each is there All and All is each. Man as he now is has ceased to be the All. But when he ceases to be an individual, he raises himself again and penetrates the whole world. (TM, p108)
Let Jesus be your all in all (p110). One sees all as coming from God and returning to God (p114). One has to be content to remain both a spirit in distress and a disciple at peace, a witness to Jesus' agony in the garden as well as to his risen glory. Our only light is faith. To experience such faith, hope, and love is not the result of human effort; it is the effect of "ah, the sheer grace!" (p116) Faith alone enables us to live in the conviction that what is happening has infinite significance. To see sensory deprivation as a formation opportunity requires a leap of faith. Suffering may seem meaningless, but there is a method to the divine madness. (p117) (Dark Night)
Eckhart's words: "God is one: that is the soul's blessedness and her adornment and her repose." God is one, God is God; he does not come, he does not go, he is not present more at one time, less at another, he is not sometimes closer, sometimes more distant. He is in all things, he is all things, he is. (Contemplation, p120)
"It is not I who live" (Gal 2:16-20). This is "letting God be God in me." (Contemplation, p121)
He is the all, but at the same time, he is greater than all his works. (Sir 43:27-28)
I have become all things to all, to save at least some. (1 Cor 9:22)
"That God may be All in All" (1 Cor 15:28). If every member is completely fulfilled in the Holy Spirit by belief in JC's teachings and example, then the whole society/universe would "let God be God" and be co-creators with Him by being "partakers in the Divine nature" (2 Peter ??) and thereby "make everything new" (Rev ). "Any and All" is my realization that God is both the singluar and the totality. For example, the arguement of creation vs. evolution is not one or the other, but both (creative evolution). Also, with religions, each is good and possibly combining the best of each would produce an even richer spiritual life. For example, Christianity is just now discovering the meditations of the Eastern religions. We must be sensitive to ourselves, others, and God. I am that I am (Ex 3:14). He maketh his sun shine on the just and the unjust (Mt 5:45). Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Rom 12:2). Gods ways are not the same as ours and his thoughts are above our thoughts ( ). With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible (Matt 19:26). Where shall I go from thy spirit or where shall I flee from thy presence (Ps 139:7)? For in him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:28). Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, the deep things of God (1 Cor 2:9). The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man; for one is given wisdom, another knowledge, another faith, etc (I Cor 12:7-11) But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you (Rom 8:9). On the Emmaus Road, Jesus opened their minds to all that was written in the scriptures (Mt). Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, and soul (Randy)
I am made in the image of God, "I live, now not I; but Christ lives in me." The deepest and truest thing within me is not myself but God. Self disappears and God lives and acts within me; my activity is no longer my own but the activity of God who is all in all. In the last analysis there is nothing except Christ. "There is no such thing as Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female; for you are all one in Christ." (Zen, p18)