Journey to Oneness are wisdom words from Fr. Thomas Keating spoken during the filming of his last DVD series That We May Be One in July 2016. Some are included in the series; others are from footage published here for the first time. A new word will be posed every Monday throughout the year. May they serve to inspire hope and lift your heart.
English Transcript
Jesus reveals that oneness quite a few times in his teaching, especially in his last discourse in the Last Supper where he speaks of oneness. He prays for his followers to be one with the same unity that he has in the Father and the Father has in him. So, the Priestly Prayer [John 17] is full of the idea of oneness. Then Paul develops this in his reflections on the Mystical Body of Christ so that through Baptism or grace each human being is invited – and those who do – certainly become a New Creature in Christ as cells in the Mystical Body. So, we bring our little holon or our little fractal expression of the divine geometry into ordinary life and everything we do cannot be separated from this oneness. It dwells in us as a kind of deepest self. And little by little, we are meant to develop a capacity of being conscious of that higher self from which we come.
Semana del 17 de junio – La Unidad y la Conciencia del Yo Superior
Jesús revela esa unidad varias veces en su enseñanza, especialmente en sus palabras en la Ultima Cena, cuando habla de la unidad. Ora para que sus seguidores sean uno con la misma unidad que Él tiene con el Padre, y que el Padre tiene con Él. De tal modo, la Oración Sacerdotal [Juan 17] expresa totalmente la idea de unidad. Luego Pablo desarrolla esta idea en sus reflexiones sobre el Cuerpo Místico de Cristo para que, por medio del bautismo o de la gracia, cada ser humano sea invitado – y los que lo son, ciertamente se convierten en la Nueva Criatura en Cristo, como células en el Cuerpo Místico. Así, traemos nuestro pequeño holón, o nuestra pequeña expresión fractal de la geometría divina a la vida ordinaria, y todo lo que hacemos no puede separarse de esta unidad. Habita en nosotros como una especie de yo profundo. Y estamos destinados a desarrollar, poco a poco, la capacidad de hacernos conscientes de este yo superior del que provenimos.
