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The God in Front Of Us
“My people see land ownership as being totally different to the English. We lived on the land as people of the land. To us it was a natural way of being, being part of all that there is…. All around you are family members from the ground up; the trees around you, the clouds, birds flying by, the animals and reptiles…and the stars at night. But that ‘oneness’ has been shrunk down to the ‘mineness’ of this little box, ‘my house’, ‘my car’….You’re part of the oneness and you can feel that. You feel good when you’re in that space.”
~ “Uncle” Bob Randall, Aboriginal elder, singer, writer, teacher and community leader.
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“Mystical systems are addicted to transcending this reality. This addiction is part of the reason why the world is being destroyed. The monotheistic religions honor an off-planet God and would sacrifice this world and its attachments to the adoration of that God.
“We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.”
— Andrew Harvey
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