Meditation and Environment

 

Some quotes re Meditation and Environment.

Laurence Freeman “Great shifts in consciousness need to be worked out at the individual level as well the communal level” (Feb 2004)

LF “Contemplative prayer awakens our sense of connection and responsibility for and to the wondrous creation we are part of. Because meditation heals the excessive individualism of our culture and restrains its inherent self centredness we can truly see the relevance of a deep spirituality to the healing of our wounded environment.”

LF (NL Feb 2004) “GREAT SHIFTS IN CONSCIOUSNESS NEED TO BE WORKED OUT AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL AS WELL AS THE COMMUNAL LEVEL-WE NEED TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES BEFORE WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER.”

LF (NL July 2011) “Meditation makes each of us a channel for the divine energies to enter the human and natural worlds and to bathe them in the love that simultaneously creates and redeems"

LF “The potential of meditation is to open up the common ground of humanity in our divided world - because it is a universal Wisdom it is a source of hope. It is one of humanities great unifying elements on the way to Wisdom”

LF (NL Nov 2018) “The great teachers in our tradition all call us to see that contemplation is seeing and so in that contemplative response to the challenges of our time is the best contribution we can make to go forward with hope"

LF “In meditation we create a spaciousness of mind to give us the ability to experience a different reality and an ability to see differently."

LF “In a context of a new universality, globalisation can have many dimensions- a global consciousness and a global sense of belonging can arise.”

LF (May 2004) “Meditation develops our spiritual senses-it allows us to see the difference between needs and desires, to smell out reality from illusion, to feel the difference between the gravity of spirit which is love and the gravity of ego which is fear. The world is hungering for, and urgently needs this new contemplative consciousness to save it from its own contradictions.”

John Main “We find Christ in our hearts and then we find ourselves in him, and in him, in all creation.”

JM “Meditation changes our experience of who we are...not separate identities but related, as cells in one body...a movement from ego to true self in relationship in a common source and ground of being”

JM “We are called to realise that the primal power and energy of creation flows in our hearts and this power is the energy of love.” JM Moment of Christ

“Learning to meditate is not learning to do it is learning to be. It is learning to be yourself, to enter into the gift of your own being, learning to accept the gift of your own being, of your own creation- To be in harmony with your own being and with your continuous creation is also to be in harmony with all of creation around us, it is being in harmony with the creator.”

Charles Brandt - “Through Christian meditation we assist in the great transformation of human hearts and minds which leads the human community and the earth community into a single sacred community."

Charles Brandt –“To realise our unity with all beings, and so to leave the world of duality is perhaps the most important step we can take towards halting the environmental destruction that is taking place on the  so we enter into silence and stillness, exposing our human consciousness to the resurrected, glorified, infinitely transcendent human consciousness of Christ and through him we are carried to the Father"

Joan Chittester “We are close to finding ourselves victims of our own distorted sense of progress"

NB -  Meditatio Ecologie - vidéo introductive par Michel Maxime Egger

Bonnevaux U Tube 2020

Laurence Freeman: Part 5.1 Contemplative Consciousness writes of tipping points (TPs) as prophetic “radical insights into the present structure of things in terms of the greater truth"

TPs are physical in terms of earth systems but also consciously with regard to human self- awareness.  “They demand rethinking along fresh ways of meaning and valuing actions and outcomes."

“If we are to think radically, I would suggest an approach to a strategy for dealing with tipping points that includes acknowledging the practice of meditation as a way of metanoia, seeing in a new way." p159

‘Contemplative consciousness (CC) is a new vantage point... a radical openness to new ways of seeing and judging where science and religion can work better together to bring about a sustainable science and economy based on wholeness”

Laurence Freeman “Meditation is a universal spiritual wisdom. It is a practice found at the core of all the great religious traditions. Meditation leads from the mind to the heart. ...The stillness and silence of meditation as a spiritual practice, changes the world because it changes us…as a way of connecting with a consciousness beyond the self...a deeper awareness. We unite in our common need to protract the earth. A daily practice of meditation can be a catalyst for ongoing sustainable action for the environment.”

Thomas Berry … “When we pray for a better world god responds but not in a way we may wish for, but by giving us the opportunity to create it...it is up to us to do the work as co-creators .Our responsibility is the immediate work at hand, but to let the outcome rest in God’s hands.”