My experiences, thoughts and their expression: mi vida

So, we are talking about the search for God, or god, or gods...or as Fr. Keating puts it: UM - Ultimate Mystery . Click on the title for Fr. Keating's writing. He then writes: see paragraph 5 & 6 " One aspect of the search for Ultimate Mystery requires special emphasis today. I refer to Its identification with other human beings and with their needs, rights, and heartbreaks. The seeker must search for Ultimate Mystery not only in Itself, but also in Its manifestation in individual human beings, especially in those who are suffering unjustly. " The term "its" - second line, 4th. word - refers to the search for God to be identified with the needs, rights and pains of other human beings. Not only to search, but to search in the manifestation of God in others...especially in those who suffer. But not only who 'suffer', but who suffer unjustly . This is complex, complicated. God manifests (forget the terms himself, herself, itself, etc. and its...

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This article by Fr. Keating has been quite extraordinary. I think it is one of the most significant socio-cultural-spiritual-humanistic-theistic related readings of late for me. The 3rd. paragraph continues hitting hard: " Seekers of Ultimate Mystery can relate to everything that is of genuine spiritual value in every religion and cultural tradition. They can relate to human values wherever they can be found. This is not at all an attitude of eclecticism, a kind of homogenizing of religions and human values. Still less is it an abdication of one’s personal convictions and experience. It is, rather, a centering of one’s attention upon what unites rather that what divides; the developing of a unity in which trans-cultural values come first, without denying or denigrating the particular values of one’s own race, culture or religion. Thus, true unity can be expressed in pluralism: unity in the experience of the fundamental valu...