... and how could anyone believe
that anything in this world
is only what it appears to be—
that anything in this world
is only what it appears to be—
~ Mary Oliver from "What Is It?" in HOUSE OF LIGHT
To see every woman and every man as sister and brother is to participate in the faith vision of the mystic, whose central intuition is a graced effect of contemplation, which gradually transforms our way of seeing reality. This mystical vision is far from an esoteric or "misty" dream, for surely the survival of our planet depends on a universal realization of this unity and the interconnectedness of all peoples and of all the cosmos, in the one Love which is God.