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Now, two decades into my career, I practise, lecture, supervise and write about all of these things, but increasingly I reject everything that I learned. Instead, I practise the art of ‘being for another’, an idea that arose in conversation with my colleague Sophie de Vieuxpont. I’m a mentor, a friend in an asymmetrical friendship, and a sounding b... See more

Niklas Serning • I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays

Why do people in the world think of masses (of people) and not as one (body)?” I knew the answer to that question. Jesus looked at me as if I was the only person in the world and the only one who mattered to Him. That is exactly how I understood that we are to see one another—as if the other person is the most important person in the world to God.

Randy Kay • Heaven Stormed

For when the mind is brought to stillness, and all our strategies of acquisition have dropped, a deeper truth presents itself: we are and have always been one with God and we are all one in God (Jn 17:21).

Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

Teresa of Avila.

John O'Donohue • Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

a teacher sees to the heart of the matter and pulls things through to other things and then more things, connecting what others do not even see as connected—suffering to hope to structures to desire to agents to joy, and all to God in the depths, always in the depths.

Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

We imagine an encounter with a wise old person in a cave or on top of a mountain or in some other remote place. This wise being knows the answers we desperately need after our long journey. In fantasy we ask questions such as, Who am I that I do not yet know I am? or How am I standing in the way of my own growth? or What do I need to do to let go o

Nathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect

Pavel Florensky

David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity

Do you know whom I seek out when I feel small and weak against the troubles of my life? I go to Julie. It never enters my mind that she will not love me for simply being human. That she will be a shelter for me – without question or reservation – is always my trust. I know that about her because I know her. Julie is good, compassionate, and tender

Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend

Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)

Marc Cortez

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