

“Evil and sin arise from the blamer in ourselves.”
― The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
― The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
“Rabbi Zusha of Hanipoli (eighteenth century) was famous for his simple faith. Many stories are told about him, but perhaps the best · known relates his response to students who asked why his teachings were different from those of his own teacher. Zusha's answer was: "When I come before the judges of the heavenly tribunal, they are not going to ask if I lived my life like Moses, or if I lived my life like Abraham. They are going to ask me if I lived my life to be the best Zusha I could be.”
― God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
― God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism

“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Sermons of Meister Eckhart
― Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“The willfully ignorant are wont to follow this inclination that leads back to the animal they were but can no longer be, because it allows escape from the trials of self-knowledge and the demands of discrimination. Not wanting to know is the most powerful and destructive of forces, ultimately resulting in that self-indulgent cowardice that alone makes it possible for people to allow and participate in all the injustices and crimes of the world.”
― The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
― The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
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