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“the world is in extreme danger and that the future of humanity and a great deal of nature is now at stake. He knows that this danger is an unprecedented opportunity for rebirth and renewal on a global scale. He also knows that this rebirth and renewal depend on a whole-scale radical reimagining and reinvention of spirituality and religion on every level—a”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“the greatest hope for the transformation of the world lies in a grassroots revolution of love-in-action, will be a grueling one. The forces stacked against the success of our enterprise are brilliantly organized, dark, drunk on power, and lethal, and the situation we find ourselves in is already apocalyptic, with the environment in freefall, two billion people living close to starvation, hundreds of animal and plant species vanishing every day, politicians in the pay of corporations hell-bent on continuing their fundamentalism of the bottom line, a corporate-sponsored New Age addicted to a materialist and narcissistic pseudospirituality, and major world religions retreating whole-scale into divisive tribal dogmatism.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“Blessings and gratitude to all those who are passionately serving humanitarian causes, advocating for justice, and being activists for love’s dream. You are the real and abiding heroes of our world.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“The prevailing paradigm of domination, control, and “power over” has failed us. This paradigm has led to an untenable separation between people. It is endangering our survival as a species. It is dehumanizing us, violating our environment, and exiling us from the best in our spirit.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“We are learning that love is the passionate pursuit of justice.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“It also helps develop character traits in individuals that are in harmony with the infinite and vast love of the Divine as well as the needs of our struggling earth.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“we could engender a promising future for planet earth, one with much greater peace and partnership, if we find the will to transform our spiritual passivity (however pious) into a passionate activism.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“you will see a world mired in denial, dread, and learned helplessness, dominated by a media that keeps us enslaved in the most trivial and decadent distractions at the very moment when we desperately need to be galvanized by authentic information and inspired by authentic spirituality.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“we have to reorient our spirituality toward its commitment to our planet earth. We have to join with the millions of all faiths who are awakening their spirituality to its passionate responsibility to the suffering, the social struggles, and the aspirations of all living beings.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“We are witnessing love erupting into global action. We are participating in a worldwide movement of engaged spirituality.”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice

“The anthology that Chris offers us here has been in the making, then, for several decades. It reflects brilliantly, poignantly, and astringently the integration of inner spiritual and psychological depth, and the outer commitment to service and action, that is humanity’s greatest hope for the future”
― Chris Saade, Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice