“The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God”
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
― The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
“One of the main reasons we’re so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality, and that its conclusions are generally valid. This, however, is a fallacy. Our mind’s view of reality can be, and often is, completely distorted.”
― The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
― The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
“Whenever we use our brain, we fire certain neuronal connections, and the more these connections get used, the stronger they become.”
― The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
― The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
“Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.”
― Christian Mysticism
― Christian Mysticism
“So I Idren, I sistren / Which way will we choose / We better hurry, oh hurry, oh hurry, woe now / ’Cause we’ve got no time to lose.”429 This urgency intensifies toward realized eschatology in the song’s final verse: “So I Idren, I sistren / The preaching and talking is done / We’ve gotta live up, woe now, woe now / ’Cause the Father’s time has come”430 (cf. Mark 1:15).”
― The Bible and Bob Marley: Half the Story Has Never Been Told
― The Bible and Bob Marley: Half the Story Has Never Been Told
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