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You cannot very well do your own baptism. It is done to you, for you.”7 It’s an adoption, not an interview.
“Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“Greenspan calls this “spiritual bypassing”—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
“Hello to the courage that comes from the same place as fear.”
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
“The other nine, decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction,” wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
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