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“About seventy years ago, Pope Pius XI wrote in a papal encyclical, Mystici Corporis, ‘It is a great mystery that the salvation of the many depends on the holiness of the few . . .’”
I have often meditated on this mystery.
“Zero is the still point where form and formless meet in perfect balance. This is the awakened state. To live at the zero point is to live liberated.”
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
“The laying down of the self, the letting go of attachment to self, is our biggest challenge.”
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
“With a wispier sense of self and growing courage and longing, we remain surrendered. This movement allows us to ripen every positive potentiality, our buddhaseed, our Christ consciousness, in transcendence. Here, as Martin Laird, a contemporary Christian contemplative, puts it, is “not the loss of identity but its flowering.”
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
“Surrender Laying down the self, like the hero who is too tired, too weakened, too bored, or too disenchanted with it to keep carrying it around, we cede the victory. Seeing through the self, the hero recognizes it as illusory, mere imputation, and lays it down.”
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
“No, of course I don’t. You two were crazy about each other. She was hearing the voices that killed her when she was a little girl. John Hardin hears those same voices. There’s a kind of songbird too pretty to fly with the crows and the starlings. The other birds attack it in flocks and tear it apart when it starts to sing. Nothing soft endures. Nature loathes meekness and goodness. Shyla got hurt early and deep. You kept her from the bridge as long as you could, son.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
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