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What does it mean?
Fuller suggests divinity is an active force or process rather than a static being.
In plain terms
God is action not a thing.
What can you take from it?
View spiritual concepts as dynamic processes.

Where it applies

  • theological discussion
  • personal belief
  • writing

Putting it to work

  • reframe spiritual language
  • focus on doing

Questions to consider

  • Is faith about being or doing?
  • How do you define the sacred?

Another view

Traditional views often see God as a noun.

More from Buckminster Fuller

  1. Don't fight forces, use them.

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  2. Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

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  3. Dare to be naive.

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