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This is the precept of precepts, says the devout Avila,—seek as you will you can never so surely discover God’s Will as through the channel of humble obedience so universally taught and practised by all the Saints of olden time.
“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
“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
“When I open my Bible, I’m invited into a jetstream of love.”
― Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
― Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
“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
“The discussion on motivation of work usually considers only the first problem, namely whether this or that incentive increases the economic productivity of the worker, but not the second, that of his human productivity”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
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