Tilden Edwards Quotes
Six Quotes by: Tilden Edwards of Shalem Institute For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 8th May 2010.
In the wider ecumenism of the Spirit being opened for us today, we need to humbly accept the learnings of particular Eastern religions … What makes a particular practice Christian is not its source, but its intent … this is important to remember in the face of those Christians who would try to impoverish our spiritual resources by too narrowly defining them. If we view the human family as one in God’s spirit, then this historical cross-fertilization is not surprising … selective attention to Eastern spiritual practices can be of great assistance to a fully embodied Christian life.
Book: by Ray Yungen entitled: A Time of Departing Published: 16th March 2010.
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I think this book [Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton] will be of enormous value to individuals and groups who are seeking to more fully ground all dimensions of their often fragmented and hectic daily lives in the liberating ground of God's transforming presence, with the help of a rhythm of vital spiritual practices that can keep us available to that loving presence.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: February 2006.
The new ecumenism involved here is not between Christian and Christian, but between Christians and the grace of other intuitively deep religious traditions.
Book: by Tilden Edwards entitled: Spiritual Friend (New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1980), p. 172. Published: 1980.
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This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. ... … It is no accident that the most active frontier between Christian and Eastern religions today is between contemplative Christian monks and their Eastern equivalents.
Book: by Tilden Edwards entitled: Spiritual Friend, p. 18 Published: 1980.
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It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba “master”. Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the “other sheep” manifesting the cosmic Christ.
Book: by Tilden Edwards entitled: Spiritual Friend, p. 169. Published: 1980.
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