Also one more from the mystic Jean Pierre de Caussaude:
"...The present moment is like an ambassador who declares the Will of God...To hallow the Name of God is to love Him, to adore Him, and to recognise his holiness in all things. Things, like words, do indeed proceed from the mouth of God. The events of each moment are divine thoughts expressed by created objects. Thus, all those things by which he makes his Will known to us are so many Names, so many words by which shows us his Will. In itself this Will is one, singular. It bears only one unknown, inexpressible Name, but it is multiplied infinitely in its effects and takes on their Names. To hallow the Name of God is to know, adore and love the Inexpressible One who is expressed by this Name. It is also to know, adore and love his blessed Will at all times, in all its effects, seeing all things as so many veils, shadows and Names of this eternally holy Will. It is holy in all its works, holy in all its words, holy in all its forms of manifestation, holy in all the Names it bears...Surrender to God's Will contains the essence of that incomparable prayer that Christ himself taught us...We utter it in the depth of our hearts each moment that we lovingly receive or suffer whatever is ordained by his sacred Will. What the lips need words and time to express, the heart effectively utters with each beat. In this way simple souls are called to bless God in the depth of their hearts...Let us learn to recognise the imprint of the Will of God, of his Worthy Name in the event of each moment. How holy is that Name! It is only right therefore to bless and receive it as a form of sacrament that by its own power makes holy the souls in which it finds no obstacle to its action. Can we do anything other than to infinitely value whatever bears this majestic Name?..."
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675 - 1751), French Jesuit priest and Catholic mystic (p45 The Joy of Full Surrender)
And in the Sukhmani (Ashtpadi, 3, Pauri 8), Guru Arjun Dev affirms:
<DIR>Of all Religions the best Religion is:
To utter the Holy Name with adoration,
And to do good deeds.
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What a marvellous, ecumenical, broad, universal perspective! And it is so very true I have found!
