“ Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being. ”
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“ Any attempt to engineer or plan your own enlightenment is doomed to failure because it will be ego driven. You will only see what you have already decided to look for, and you cannot see what you are not ready or told to look for. So failure and humiliation force you to look where you never would otherwise. . . . So we must stumble and fall, I'm sorry to say. ”
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“ Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. ”
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“ Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being. ”
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“ Christians are usually sincere and wellintentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fastfood religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumeroriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody elseand often more so, I'm afraid. ”
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“ Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. ”
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“ ...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst. ”
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“ ...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries. ”
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“ Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking" (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, "with me" or "against me," and most of the time you'll be wrong. ”
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“ Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. ”
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“ Christians are usually sincere and wellintentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fastfood religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumeroriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody elseand often more so, I'm afraid. ”
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“ every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. ”
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“ ...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst. ”
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“ ...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries. ”
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“ Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow it for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others. ”
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“ Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ We have to learn to live in both the world-as-it-is and the world-as-it-should-be. One is power; the other is love. Power and love are conjugal partners. Power without love is brutality, but love without power is soon sentimentality. We have to put the two together in this world. ”
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“ Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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“ I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. ”
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“ The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it. ”
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