Advent reflection

“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” John 1:1-3

Advent reflection

“I am the source of all, everything proceeds from me. I dwell in the heart, and dispel the darkness born of ignorance with the bright light of knowledge. I am the seed of all being; nothing can exist without me. Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, or power, know that it arises from but a fragment of my splendor.” Bhagavad Gita 10:8, 11, 39, 41

Advent reflection

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” Black Elk

Advent reflection

“The Logos is eternally valid, yet men cannot understand it -- not only before hearing it, but even afterward. All things come to pass in accord with this Logos, but men seem to be quite unaware of it.… Although intimately connected with the Logos, men keep setting themselves against it.… Listening not to me but to the Logos, it is wise to acknowledge that all things are one.” Heraclitus

Advent reflection

"If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall cover me', even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee." Psalm 139:11-12

Advent reflection

"If there is anywhere anything consolidated, it has been bound by the Logos of God, for this Logos is glue and a chain, filling all things with its essence." "The two natures are indivisible; the nature, I mean, of the reasoning power in us, and of the divine Logos above us." Philo of Alexandria

Advent reflection

"The light shines in darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it." John 1:5

Advent reflection

"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour." Psalm 8:3-5

Advent reflection

"He who overwhelms with good the evil that he has done lights up the world, like the moon emerging from clouds." Dhammapada 173

Advent reflection

"Falsehood implies the making of a wrong statement by one who is overwhelmed by intense passions." Upasakadasanga Sutra