hana77
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“I forgive you … for treating me the way you felt about yourself.”
Source: Wild Spirit, Soft Heart
“Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“If you feel far from God, guess who moved?”
Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer
Source: Surprise Endings
“If you feel far from God, guess who moved?”
Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer
Source: Surprise Endings
“Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon VI : Sanctification
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: Sanctification is the best of all things, for it cleanses the soul, and illuminates the conscience, and kindles the heart, and wakens the spirit, and girds up the loins, and glorifies virtue and separates us from creatures, and unites us with God. The quickest means to bring us to perfection is suffering; none enjoy everlasting blessedness more than those who share with Christ the bitterest pangs. Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. The surest foundation in which this perfection may rest is humility; whatever here crawls in the deepest abjectness, that the Spirit lifts to the very heights of God, for love brings suffering and suffering brings love.
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
Khalil Gibran book The Prophet
Source: kniha The Prophet (Prorok), báseň On pain (O bolesti)
“And God said "Love Your Enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Source: The Broken Wings (Zlomená křídla)
