Hannah
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“When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic.”
― The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
― The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
“The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. "What do you say when you pray?" she answered, "I listen." The reporters paused a moment, then asked, "Then what does God say?" and she replied, "He listens." It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.”
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It”
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
“Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we “love one another as I have loved you” and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.”
― The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
― The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
“God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.”
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