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But nobody can actually make us happy or feel significant for any length of time.
“As Neil Evernden has pointed out, our freedom lies not primordially in our actions within a story, but rather in the choosing of our story.”
― Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
― Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
“To gauge the soul we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the Soul are one and the same. Eckhart”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“If work were to become interesting without the other spheres of life becoming human, no real change would occur. In fact, it could not become interesting. It is the very evil of present-day culture that it separates and compartmentalizes the various spheres of living. The way to sanity lies in overcoming this split and in arriving at a new unification and integration within society and within the individual human being.”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
“In those respects in which the soul is unlike God, it is also unlike itself. St. Bernard”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“There is,” wrote William Penn, “something nearer to us than Scriptures, to wit, the Word in the heart from which all Scriptures come.”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
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