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Freed from the idolatries of their attachments, individuals are able to be completely in love with God and to love their neighbors as themselves. This love involves one’s whole self: actions as well as feelings. Second, the delusion of separation from God and creation is dispelled; slowly one consciously realizes and enjoys the essential union that
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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The relationship with God is central, as it is the foundation for the other three. Part of the way that we both love God and experience His love for us is in our relationships with self, others, and the rest of creation.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
We need to put off the old man, the old nature, the conditioned self, and return to the state of the child but without being a child. When we start off in life, we look at reality with wonder, but it isn’t the intelligent wonder of the mystics; it’s the formless wonder of the child. Then wonder dies and is replaced by boredom, as we develop
... See moreJ. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Now I’m working to adopt the practice of speaking directly and often to the God-Spirit living within me.