The following is a quote from Sister Madonna Kolbenschlag (d.2000), from The Mystic Vision: Daily Encounters with the Divine, compiled by Andrew Havey and Anne Baring. It is too long as a ‘Daily Quote’. Anything I might say about seems superfluous, so I suggest that you sit in the silence with it. That’s what I’m doing.
I think our concept of God is a product of our own dualistic thinking, which is that things are either transcendent of immanent. And I don’t believe that anymore. Spirit and matter are not split in the manner that we have stereo-typically thought of it. My experience of God is of being transcendent and immanent all at once…I no longer believe that God is up there, and I don’t believe that God is only within me, and I don’t believe that God is merely out there in history. I thing we are actually in God at all times.
I think our concept of God is a product of our own dualistic thinking, which is that things are either transcendent of immanent. And I don’t believe that anymore. Spirit and matter are not split in the manner that we have stereo-typically thought of it. My experience of God is of being transcendent and immanent all at once…I no longer believe that God is up there, and I don’t believe that God is only within me, and I don’t believe that God is merely out there in history. I thing we are actually in God at all times.
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