Four Traditions, One Spirit
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Author: Chet Meyers
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This book is about hope—hope for the human condition. It is a hope rooted in the wisdom of four great spiritual traditions: Jewish, Christian, Sufi, and Dakota. Despite their different religious and doctrinal backgrounds, on a spiritual level these four traditions demonstrate an amazing agreement on human values. And they witness to common human longing for love, compassion, and justice rooted in a mysterious, yet benevolent, transcendent force—God, Yahweh, Allah, or Great Mystery. The author suggests that though their words, images, and stories differ, these four traditions are all reflecting the same Ultimate Reality or Transcendent Force.
"Wakan-Tanka is both within all things and above all things."
–Black Elk, Lakota
"We are One: one people, one ecology, one universe, one being, If there is symbol a single truth—it is that we are all integral to the Truth, not separate."
–Kabir Edmund Helminski, Sufi
". . . In some degree or other everyone who has been touched by the Spirit, and did not shut himself to it, knows about the basic fact of the situation . . . (through) meetings of the Spirit which blows around us and in us."
–Martin Buber, Jewish
"God is not present to us in just one place but in and through all bodies, the bodies of the sun and the moon, trees, rivers, animals, and people."
–Sallie McFague, Christian
ISBN: 978-0-87839-830-0
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 128
Publication Date: May 2015
Description:
This book is about hope—hope for the human condition. It is a hope rooted in the wisdom of four great spiritual traditions: Jewish, Christian, Sufi, and Dakota. Despite their different religious and doctrinal backgrounds, on a spiritual level these four traditions demonstrate an amazing agreement on human values. And they witness to common human longing for love, compassion, and justice rooted in a mysterious, yet benevolent, transcendent force—God, Yahweh, Allah, or Great Mystery. The author suggests that though their words, images, and stories differ, these four traditions are all reflecting the same Ultimate Reality or Transcendent Force.
"Wakan-Tanka is both within all things and above all things."
–Black Elk, Lakota
"We are One: one people, one ecology, one universe, one being, If there is symbol a single truth—it is that we are all integral to the Truth, not separate."
–Kabir Edmund Helminski, Sufi
". . . In some degree or other everyone who has been touched by the Spirit, and did not shut himself to it, knows about the basic fact of the situation . . . (through) meetings of the Spirit which blows around us and in us."
–Martin Buber, Jewish
"God is not present to us in just one place but in and through all bodies, the bodies of the sun and the moon, trees, rivers, animals, and people."
–Sallie McFague, Christian
ISBN: 978-0-87839-830-0
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 128
Publication Date: May 2015