“[T]he peacemaker is one who has established peace within oneself. Peace is not a naïve simplicity, but the perfect harmony of immense complexity. It is the delicate balance of all the faculties of human nature totally subject to God’s will and transformed by Divine Love into a finely tuned instrument.

“Peacemaking is the normal overflow of rootedness in Christ. Peacemakers are those who have the assurance of being the children of God. They are ones who in a sense are God acting in the world. They pour into the world the being they have received from God, which is a share in God’s divine nature.

“Today, God seems to be urging us to take more initiative in dealing with global problems and to take part in the transformation of society, beginning of course, with what is closest to us. … The power of the stars is nothing compared to the energy of a person whose will has been freed from the false-self system and who is thus enabled to co-create the cosmos together with God. … The commitment to the spiritual journey is not a commitment to pure joy, but to taking responsibility for the whole human family, its needs and destiny. We are not our own; we belong to everyone else.”
– Thomas Keating, The Mystery of Christ

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About this edition

ISBN: 9781441114907, 1441114904

Page count: 142

Published: July 15, 2010

Format: Ebook

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Language: English

Author: Thomas Keating