The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use<br> possession is unthinkable in most traditional … - Thomas Berry

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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

Thomas Berry

The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use
possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures. . . the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

Community, World, Sacred, Human

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

Humanity, Excellent, Universe, False, Say

Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.

Life, Order, Religion, Sustainable, Cosmology

To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.

Consciousness, Magnitude, Peace, Religious, Spiritual

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

Spiritual, Stars, Emotional, Forests, Insects, Soaring