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CONFESSION: Eternal God, you are truth.
We have been deceived;
misguided by lies,
and disoriented by darkness.
In our error, correct us.
In our repentance, forgive us.
In our ignorance, illuminate us.
Jesus, your name is above every other name:
I worship you.
A prayer of Kari Kristina Reeves,
adapted from Canyon Road: A Book of Prayer
Gratitude of a non-specific, all encompassing quality and tinged with a not-unpleasant sadness, might be said to be the primary emotion of the truth-realized person and the mature Human Adult.
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
- Eidolon (εἴδωλον): A ghostly phantom or illusory double in Greek mythology, reflecting an unreal or idealized image of a person or thing.
- Daemon (δαίμων): A divine or spiritual being in Greek philosophy, acting as a guiding force or moral conscience between gods and humans.
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this is the essence of liberating integration: allowing into awareness what was previously kept out of awareness.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
These are called the guardians of Truth, and their names are Paradox and Confusion.
Steve Hagen • Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
theodicy is the longing for a God who notices our suffering, who cares enough to act, and who will make all things new.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
The lumen naturae is an image of light at the core of ancient alchemical ideas. One of the aims of alchemy was to beget this light hidden in nature, a light very different from the Western association of light as separate from darkness. In Alchemical Studies, Jung writes about the light of nature (lumen naturae), which he calls "the light of d
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