Someone Called “God”

This is part of a weekly series based on Fr. Thomas Keating's talk "The Evolution of the Contemplative Christian Spiritual Journey" from the 2012 Contemplative Outreach Annual Conference in Snowmass, CO, "God is All in All."

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I'm going to speak about someone that we call "God" in the Judeo-Christian tradition. There's almost as many words for God as there are people, which isn't a bad insight, because in my understanding, this Being-beyond-being – whoever he, she, or it is – there is no word or concept to embrace it all. It's not overwhelming, but it's monumental. It insinuates everything so that this Presence – my favorite word for It – is in everything without being limited to anything. It just is. This is the Mystery that has created us with such great love so that each of us is primarily God or at least participating in God before we're anything else. God is more us than we are, because we were in his mind forever and we will be with him in due time forever too.

Alguien llamado “Dios”

Voy a hablarles de alguien a quien llamamos “Dios” en la tradición judeocristiana. Hay casi tantas palabras para Dios como hay gente, lo que no es una mala idea, ya que según lo entiendo, para este Ser-más allá–del-ser - quien quiera que sea, él, ella o ello – no hay ninguna palabra o concepto que lo abarque en su totalidad. No es sobrecogedor, pero es monumental. Lo insinúa todo, de modo que su Presencia – mi palabra preferida para nombrarLo – está en todas las cosas sin estar limitada a nada. Simplemente es. Ese es el Misterio que nos ha creado con un amor tan grande, tal que cada uno de nosotros somos principalmente Dios, o al menos participamos de Dios antes de ser cualquier otra cosa. Dios es más nosotros que nosotros mismos, porque estuvimos en su mente por siempre y estaremos con El a su debido tiempo también por siempre.