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“I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.”

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Forrás: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.”

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Forrás: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.”

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Forrás: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“We have defined freedom in the West as the freedom to choose between options and preferences. That’s not primal freedom. That’s a secondary or even tertiary freedom. The primal freedom is the freedom to be the self, the freedom to live in the truth despite all circumstances. That’s what great religion offers us. That’s what real prayer offers us. That’s why the saints could be imprisoned and not lose their souls. They could be put down and persecuted like Jesus and still not lose their joy, their heart, or their perspective. Secular freedom is having to do what you want to do. Religious freedom is wanting to do what you have to do.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 93

“The world, the system, moves forward out of fear. That’s why they have to threaten us to play the game. We’re threatened with loss of job, money, reputation, or prestige. It’s all based on fear.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 85-86

“Group-think is a substitute for God-think. The belief is that God is found only by our group. The next step is to establish that identification with our group as the only way to serve God.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 82

“Much of my criticism of religion comes about when I see it not only affirming the system of normalcy but teaching folks how to live there comfortably. It just increases our “stuckness” in the old world. As does a lot of poor psychotherapy. Cheap religion teaches us how to live successfully in a sick system.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 132

“Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 127

“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”

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"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"

“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo—even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (2011)

“God does not love you because you are good, God loves you because God is good.”

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"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"

“What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important. Too often people think it is necessary that we all see God in the same way (which is impossible anyway), but what is really necessary is that we all follow God according to what God tells us. The fact that God has given us so many different faces and temperaments and emotions and histories shows us how God honors each unique journey and culture. God is not threatened by differences. It’s we who are.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 110

“Religion has not tended to create seekers or searchers, has not tended to create honest, humble people who trust that God is always beyond them. We aren’t focused on the great mystery. Religion has, rather, tended to create people who think they have God in their pockets, people with quick, easy, glib answers. That’s why so much of the West is understandably abandoning religion. People know the great mystery cannot be that simple and facile.”

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Forrás: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 33

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