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Finally, in “Little Gidding,” the last of the poems, Eliot eloquently addresses the question of how we come to terms with life just as it is. He does so by borrowing a quote from Dame Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century Christian mystic: “All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well,” to which he adds this directive: By the
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Mystical literature differs from other forms of writing in that as our understanding deepens, we draw more from it.
Eknath Easwaran • Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)
“I look better in black
I’ve heard it said that heaven’s gates only open to those who rise above the dirt of Earth on the glowing wings of love and light. But when I suspend my superstition and perceive instead with my own naked vision, I can’t help but notice that darkness and light are distributed here in equal measure. And searching for God is
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David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
Spirtuality
Kristian S • 8 cards
This may sound way too mystical for your persuasion, but to put all my cards on the table, I’m with the theologian Karl Rahner, who said, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”[44] You know why I think he’s right? Because the Christian of the past was a mystic. And if we don’t recapture contemplation, we “will
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