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This uncomfortable unsheathing of our current experience from the coverings of our unintegrated past is a conscious death experience—the death of what is not real so we may reenter the authentic resonance of the present moment.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
Total realization means that one has realized one's identity with the Dharmakaya, the Body of Truth', or Dimension of Reality as it is'. It is the omnipresent void matrix, the Zhi, or Base of every individual that manifests in the infinitely interpenetrating dance of the energies of the universe as the Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya forms of a realiz
... See moreJohn Shane • The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen (Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy)
Now are tied, and alone and fainting, you see where your work ends. Yet you are confident still, and gladly commit what is rightful Into a stronger hand, and say that you are contented. You were free from a moment of bliss, then you yielded your freedom Into the hand of God, that he might perfect it in glory. Death Come now, highest of feasts on th
... See moreDietrich Bonhoeffer • Ethics
Merold Westphal,
James K. A. Smith • The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology

One of the developments that the morning light reveals is growing freedom, experienced as the energy of desire is liberated from the attachments that have kept it restrained. A second change is the classical transition from meditation to contemplation in prayer and the equivalent movement in the rest of life: a metamorphosis of the soul from autono
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
cosmos : not just a synonym for universe, but a beautiful universe (cosmetic)
sophistry : rhetorical masters without a compass, from ancient Greece, hucksters and mercenaries; using the dark arts of craft to deceive populations.
philosophy : the communal pursuit of wisdom (philo = friends, sophia = wisdom).
prescient : foresight into the future thr
Once awakening has happened—if it’s real, if it’s authentic—we realize that even if illusions persist, they’re not personal, and they don’t define us.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
This wasn’t the whispered doubts of skeptics, but our collective theological instruction: pray for miraculous healing, and get the will ready.