Not exact matches
There are differences, thirdly, as to the
nature of the object — whether it is material
reality, thought in the mind
of God or man, pantheistic
spiritual substance, absolute and eternal mystical Being, or simply something which we can not know in itself but upon which we project our ordered thought categories
of space, time, and causation.
The inalienable
reality of man's
spiritual nature means that Catholicism is not an esoteric, minority interest; it proposes a way
of responding to this call that we all experience at the core
of our being.
It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the
nature of Ultimate
Reality, and
of the laws governing the existence
of the cosmos,
of society, and
of individual lives; or the gift
of restoring into wholeness broken physical or
spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.
What is, then, the
nature of the operation and becoming
of this ontological
spiritual reality which manifests itself with transcendental necessity?
When we humans were primitive thousands
of years ago, we survived because
nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because
of many synthetic products our existence had endangered
nature, that awareness developed a kind
of concern for us to correct some
of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect
of reality, in the
spiritual part
of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness
of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?
It rather appears to be the degree to which, in and through the experiences to which these statements point, there is effected an actual deepening and widening
of spiritual insight into the
nature of ultimate
reality,
of human existence and
of the destiny
of man.
Religion is growth - enabling only if it encourages continuing rebirth to new dimensions
of oneself, one's relationships, and one's experience
of nature and
of spiritual reality.
Walter Kasper sees the problem as that
of explaining «the relationship
of the visible form
of the Church to its hidden
nature, which can only be grasped in faith», the relationship between its
spiritual reality and its institutional form.
I happen to believe that drawing any
spiritual conclusions from quantum mechanics is an unfounded leap in logic — but if someone out there in the world is willing to pay someone # 1 million for pondering the
nature of reality, that's a world I'm happy to live in.