Thomas Berry Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

  Thomas Berry

  Inspirational, Future, Sea

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.175, Crown

• The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.

  Thomas Berry

  Time, Self, Expression

• Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Order, Religion

• Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy of the sun. Although there was a sequence in the formation of the land sphere, the atmosphere, the water sphere, and the life sphere, these have so interacted with one another in the shaping of the Earth that we must somehow think of these as all present to one another and interacting from the beginning.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.28, Crown

• Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

  Thomas Berry

  Future, New Experiences, Psychics

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.170, Crown

• What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke a universal communion of all parts of life.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Community, Energy

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