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To lose the self is to suddenly realize that you are something other than what you thought you were. You thought you were at the center; now you experience yourself as satellite. You thought you were the dancer; you now experience yourself as the dance.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
For Augustine, psychology is cartography: to understand oneself is a matter of mapping our penchant to look for love in all the wrong places.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Among the poor, we learn to internalize their suffering, and we are transformed into the heart of Christ.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtere
... See moreMartin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Remember that essential spiritual question: Who am I following in life, authenticity or egocentricity? Here is what I’m learning. The one who wants to know the answer to that sort of question is in the latter club. That which is present to what is, is in the former.
Cheri Huber • How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics)
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awareness as simple, spacious immersion in God gets refracted as the search for God-as-object-to-be-acquired.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
“You’ll more quickly find an earthly thing kept from the earth than you will a person cut off from other human beings.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.9.3