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    Points of Agreement from Contemplatives Across Different Religious Traditions

    In 1980, a group of contemplatives across 8 religious traditions gathered together in the spirit of interfaith dialogue.

    Here are their 8 points of agreement:

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    1. The world religions bear witness to the experience of Ultimate Reality, to which they give various names.

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    2. Ultimate Reality cannot be limited by any name or concept.

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    3. Ultimate Reality is the ground of infinite potentiality and actualization.

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    4. Faith is the opening, accepting, and responding to Ultimate Reality. Faith in this sense precedes every belief system.

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    5. The potential for human wholeness — or, in other frames of reference, enlightenment, salvation, transcendence, transformation, blessedness — is present in every human being.

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    6. Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practices, but also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others.

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    7. As long as the human condition is experienced as separate from Ultimate Reality, it is subject to ignorance and illusion, weakness and suffering.

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    8. Disciplined practice is essential to the spiritual life; yet spiritual attainment is not the result of one’s own efforts, but the result of the experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality.

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    Additional Points of Agreement

    9. It is essential to extend our formal practice of awareness into all aspects of our life.

    10. Humility, gratitude, and a sense of humor are indispensable in the spiritual life.

    11. Prayer is communion with Ultimate Reality, whether it is regarded as personal, impersonal, or beyond them both.