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“Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.”
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
― The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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“The point then is to help break the false distinction between the idea that there are those who are whole and those who have a lack. For the true distinction is between those who hide their lack under the fiction of wholeness and those who are able to embrace it.”
― The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
― The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
“People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”
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“Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.”
― The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
― The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
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