Carl Holmes

“Dynamism occurs in two matrixes of sequence. I mean matrix in the same sense as in the movie The Matrix—an environment or context in which things happen. Water is the matrix of tea, meaning that tea happens in water. Cyberspace is the matrix of e-mail, meaning that e-mail happens in cyberspace. The matrix of sequence in space is time, meaning that everything that happens happens in time. The matrix of sequence outside of space is eternity. Many people think that eternity is infinite time, but that isn’t how the Bible describes it. Eternity is a separate matrix of sequence in that every point of time is present to every point of eternity. That is why prophecy is possible. God lives in eternity, and from every point of the dynamic matrix of eternity, all of time is present.”
― Ellis Potter, 3 Theories of Everything

“Mysticism can be defined as the quest to experience the presence of God directly. It is the desire to ‘see’ the invisible God and its goal is to become One with the infinite God. In this pursuit, both seeing and hearing are integrally entwined in experiencing God within the heart or imagination of the visionary.”
― Adrian Beale, The Mystic Awakening: Revealing the Ancient Secrets of God's Seers

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me (Galatians 2:20). What I find interesting here is that Paul mentions how he is living in his flesh by faith. This might contradict the popular teaching that the flesh is evil and that God wants nothing to do with the flesh. That kind of teaching has put a kill switch on the glory of God in man. And if the flesh is evil, how is it that Jesus came in the flesh? And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory (1 Timothy 3:16).”
― Jamie Galloway, Secrets of the Seer: 10 Keys to Activating Seer Encounters

“Wherever there is distance, there is longing. Yet there is some strange wisdom in the fact of distance. It is interesting to remember that the light that sustains life here on earth comes from elsewhere. Light is the mother of life. Yet the sun and the moon are not on the earth; they bless us with light across the vast distances. We are protected and blessed in our distance. Were we nearer to the sun, the earth would be consumed in its fire; it is the distance that makes the fire kind. Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. No thing is ultimately at one with itself. Everything that is alive holds distance within itself. This is especially true of the human self. It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance. There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate.”
― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong