The God Who is Here Quotes

“Jay Michaelson, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Non-dual Judaism (Boston: Trumpeter, 2009).”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“The “transfer” does not diminish Christ nor make us divine on our own, but it does “link” or “connect” us into the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, for he is the new Adam and the representative new human being through whom we receive new life. Like open-source code and cloud-computing, Jesus Christ is the cloud and the main server to whom we are reconnected by faith and spiritual surrender.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“Through the “eye of the heart,” we’re led inward by the Spirit, and in this interiority see and hear, taste and experience a “light higher than the mind”— that is to say, wisdom, revelation, and Divine encounter. Origen is a pillar of allegorical biblical interpretation in service of psychological and spiritual transformation in Christ. There are many others, including the modern examples of the two Thomases—Merton and Keating—both of whom have provided extensive models in their writings of spiritual interpretation that nurtures the contemplative Christian dimension.3”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“We are all created as self-developing organisms. It’s never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God’s unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church

“The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.”
― Peter Haas, The God Who is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church