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Anne Wilson Schaef
society itself shows all the signs of classic addiction.
he never once said “worship me” but often said “follow me”).
Divine Indwelling,
real “incarnation” which still has the power to change the world.
The experience of “powerlessness” is where we all must begin.
It is not necessarily bad will or even conscious denial on our part. We just can’t see what we are not forced to see.
salvation is primarily from ourselves.
It seems humans would sooner die than change or admit that they are mistaken.
Twelve Step Program has too often stayed at the problem-solving level, and missed out on the ecstasy itself—trustful
Our inability to see our personal failures is paralleled by our inability to see our institutional and national sins too. It is the identical and same pattern of addiction and denial.
We are all addicts.
“Stinking thinking” is the universal addiction.
All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.
Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from this self and from cultural lies.
I do not know why “power is at its best in weakness”
God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it.
People who fail to do it right, by even their own definition of right, are those who often break through to enlightenment and compassion.
It is God’s greatest surprise and God’s constant disguise, but you only know it to be true by going through it and coming out the other side yourself.
Until you bottom out, and come to the limits of your own fuel supply, there is no reason for you to switch to a higher
you will not even know there is a Larger Source until your own sources and resources fail you.
Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that you cannot “manage,” you will never find the True Manager. So God makes sure that several things will come your way that you cannot manage on your own.
does not normally create loving people,
the game is unsustainable, unless you make others, even your whole family, pay the price for your own aggression and self-assertion —which is the common pattern.
The ego always insists on moral high ground,
liberals invested in some current political correctness while living lives of rather total isolation from the actual suffering of the world,
It seems we can in no way engineer or steer our own conversion. If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
ego response is always an inadequate or even wrong response to the moment. It will not deepen or broaden life, love, or inner laughter. Your ego self is always attached to mere externals, since it has no inner substance itself.
The soul does not attach nor does it hate; it desires and loves and lets go.
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.
Meister Eckhart
the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addi...
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“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.”
the necessary longing, delaying, and backsliding that invariably precedes the full-blown leap of faith.
“We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
finally surrender ourselves to healing,
three spaces
our opinionat...
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our closed-dow...
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our defensive and defe...
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will lead to great luminosity and depth of seeing.
(Matthew 5:14)
Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.”
I wish I did not have to say that, but religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
When all of you is there, you will know. When all of you is present, the banquet will begin.
To be present is to know what you need to know in the moment.
To keep the mind space open, we need some form of contemplative or meditation practice.
One could say that authentic spirituality is invariably a matter of emptying the mind and filling the heart at the same time.
the heart space
some healing in regard to our carried hurts...
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