The Not-Yet God Quotes

“Any person who allows the mind to expand into the deeper realms of the psyche and delights in exploring the unknown touches the hem of God. Such a person is a contemplative energetic—a mystic.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“No matter what path we travel, the mind that seeks to incarnate the God within is the mind that integrates the heart and its senses. One becomes a seeker of all things divine in all things material and lives in the beauty and joy of life’s precious moments.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The evolution of God and the evolution of humanity cannot be separated. God and human form a whole, and the whole is the Christic, the person who is more God than self and more self than God. Every human person has the potential to manifest Christ, because every person is divine and entangled with the energies of divine love.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“All conscious matter has the potential for Christic life.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The pattern that Teilhard perceived was the rise of consciousness accompanying the rise of biological complexity. There is a tendency in matter to complexify as it evolves into multiple relationships whereby consciousness is increased.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Eucharist is the self-gift of one’s life as one participates in the emergence of the conscious whole united in love.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The good news of Jesus Christ eradicated religion as tribal and opened up the mind as the basis of a new holism marked by the New Person, who sees the world from a new center. Christianity is not a new religion but the end of tribal religion, evoking a new type of person for a new type of world. The Church, in Jung’s view, is to enkindle the human”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“To speak of Christ in evolution is to speak of the newness of God and the newness of the human in a personal union of love: Christ is the New Person. Meister Eckhart exclaimed: “God is the newest thing there is, the youngest thing. When we are united to God, we become new again.”4 Evolution is God-in-the-making or Christogenesis.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The idea of pantheism is rejected by many theologians because it flattens God into matter: divine transcendence seems to collapse. This is true if we think that matter is stuff or substantive being and nothing more. Quantum physics tells us otherwise. Mind and matter are entangled; the depth of matter is mind, and the limits of mind are limitless. God simply cannot be considered apart from matter because, without matter, God-talk is impossible.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Matter reveals God—for those who have eyes to see.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Without religion, evolution is blind; without evolution, religion is dead. The new spiritual awakening must begin in the depths of our own minds as we journey into the Christ Self, the psyche, and conquer all that prevents us from embracing our divine reality.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Contemplation is the wonder and awe of love, an awakening to all that exists, an aliveness that wells up from the infinite center of one’s personhood:”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Spirit is the energy portion of matter, pulling matter in the direction of the mind.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“To act on behalf of the evolutionary process requires us to overcome our inertia and apathy, our selfishness, our tendency toward individualism, egoism, and self-indulgence. To be attached to a world in process means that we must constantly leave behind what has already been achieved in order to move ahead to what is yet to be accomplished.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Religion is not a special divine grace. It is integral to natural evolution and rises with the development of human consciousness. The only way to conceive of God is to begin with the evolution of consciousness, the experience of something deep within yet transcendent to an immediate grasp of knowledge.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Conscious material life will continuously search for more life and consciousness wherever such life abounds; divinity seeks completion in all forms of intelligent life. In this respect, the Christian story is entirely too small and distorts the incomprehensible love of God.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“We have built a world of values based on finality when, in fact, every end is a new beginning. Our task is to become conscious of divinity within us and creatively advance in love toward the wholeness of life. God seeks to become God in us. It is not enough simply to believe in God, Teilhard said; rather, we are to incarnate God and to help God become God if we are to realize the potential of created existence.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Teilhard saw himself in the tradition of the Greek Fathers, especially Irenaeus and Gregory of Nyssa. He believed his concept of Christ the evolver should have the effect of “giving traditional Christianity a new reinforcement of up-to-dateness and vitality,”33 presumably in the same way the theology of the Greek Fathers did. He found the Latin Fathers and Western Christology”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The entanglement of God and world is symbolized by the concept of Omega. God becomes God in union with what is not God, because the nature of God is to become what it is not in order to reveal what it is.9 Through ongoing incarnation, God is completed by humankind in directed evolution. The evolution of God and the evolution of humanity cannot be separated.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Incarnation calls for participation in the world’s becoming. We are to throw ourselves into the creative energies within us, around us, and before us, for these energies are of God and are divinely aimed toward the maximization of love and all that love entails—beauty, goodness, truth, justice.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“he ate with outcasts and sinners (Mark 2:15) and, revealing God’s merciful love, he accepted as friends those who were declared untouchable. Jesus saw that there was no separation between himself and any other person. He saw all human beings (and, indeed, the whole created universe) as part of himself and called his disciples to a new future.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Without a living God entangled with the heart of our lives, we will destroy ourselves and our planet, because without a divine depth, nothing matters.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“He noted that the God of scholasticism, forged out of Greek philosophy, no longer speaks to the world of modern science. God has become too small to nourish in us the interest to live on a higher plane.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Religiously and theologically, the loss of the symbolic leads to the pathology of literalism. When the religious story is read literally, its true power and meaning are lost. As a consequence, access to the depths from which the story arises is also lost.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Whereas classical theology, following the Neoplatonic scheme, posited the One giving rise to the many, the new theohology of evolution posits the One arising from the many. God is no longer the essence of simplicity. God is complexifying oneness in evolution.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Authentic love preserves the freedom and integrity of the other by offering possibilities to the other without forcing the choice to act. Love is always persuasive and never coercive: God’s power is God’s love.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“We cannot understand divine completion, however, using Greek philosophy or metaphysics. Quantum physics and evolution turn ontological transcendence into nostalgia.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“While panentheism is a helpful concept, the language of pantheism and panentheism is based on concepts of “being” and “nature” that can lead to misguided images of distinct beings in relation to one another. A more useful concept to describe the inextricable relationship of God and matter is “divine entanglement,” because it points to a mutual, reciprocal, and interactive relationship.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“Both Teilhard and Jung contribute to a new religious myth of relational holism that will cause your heart to stop or to beat faster. Either way, we are in the midst of a God revolution.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole

“The function of religion is to create stories of mythic depth, stories of meaning and purpose that animate human life toward wholeness and goodness. Spirituality proposes what reality can become.”
― Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole