The Universal Christ

sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the s ...

5 Love Is the Meaning Know it well, love is its meaning. Who reveals this to you? Love. What does he reveal? Love. Why? For Love ...

What Love Tells Us About God Love, which might be called the attraction of all things toward all things, is a universal language ...

love—to the point of sacrifice and forgiveness and generosity—it will be very hard for you to access, imagine, or even experienc ...

Waking Up Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In othe ...

will then become a subject!) to keep themselves both sane and happy. That love object becomes our “North Star,” serving as our m ...

“Love Made Me Do It!” In some ways, the object of our affection is arbitrary. It can begin as a love of golf, a clean house, you ...

empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the l ...

Moving in the Divine Two-Step Let me offer a further quotation from Teilhard’s Divine Milieu, remembering that humans do not ten ...

consciousness like that cheese on a Teflon pan! But God rewards me for letting him reward me. This is the divine two-step that w ...

runs. Divine love is always the goal. But it can only build on all the stepping- stones of human relationships—and then it inclu ...

6 A Sacred Wholeness Truly, my life is one long hearkening unto myself and unto others, and unto God. —Etty Hillesum, An Interru ...

You cannot help us, but we must help You and defend Your dwelling place inside us to the last.*1 In another place, a letter to a ...

alongside of—what always seems like unwholeness and untruth! God insists on incorporating the seeming negative. There is no doub ...

The Whole-Making Instinct Carl Jung (1875–1961), the famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was highly critical of his Chr ...

the supposedly Christian continent, that another Great War was almost inevitable. Tragically, his prediction ended up being full ...

The Voice That Is Great Within Us To follow their own paths to wholeness, both Etty Hillesum and Carl Jung trusted in and hearke ...

false. How good is that? This is why saints like Augustine, Teresa of Avila, and Carl Jung seem to fully equate the discovery of ...

feels too harsh, shaming, or diminishing of yourself or others, it is not likely the voice of God. Trust me on that. That is sim ...

*1 Etty Hillesum, Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941–43 (Grand Rapids: William Eerdmans Publishing, 2002), 488 ...