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“So I Idren, I sistren / Which way will we choose / We better hurry, oh hurry, oh hurry, woe now / ’Cause we’ve got no time to lose.”429 This urgency intensifies toward realized eschatology in the song’s final verse: “So I Idren, I sistren / The preaching and talking is done / We’ve gotta live up, woe now, woe now / ’Cause the Father’s time has come”430 (cf. Mark 1:15).”
― Dean MacNeil, The Bible and Bob Marley: Half the Story Has Never Been Told

“One of the main reasons we’re so affected by our negative thoughts is that we think our mind has an accurate grasp on reality, and that its conclusions are generally valid. This, however, is a fallacy. Our mind’s view of reality can be, and often is, completely distorted.”
― OliviaFox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

“Whenever we use our brain, we fire certain neuronal connections, and the more these connections get used, the stronger they become.”
― OliviaFox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

“Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.”
― William Ralph Inge, Christian Mysticism

“The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God”
― Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

“The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making the world a better place.”
― Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

“What do the Christian mystics tell us? That the wisdom they offer us can literally unite us with God—or at the very least, give us such a powerful experience of God's presence that it can revolutionize our lives. The purpose of such transformed lives is not primarily to achieve a goal (like enlightenment or spiritual bliss), but rather to participate in the Holy Spirit's ongoing activity—embodying the flowing love of Christ, love that we in turn give back to God as well as to “our neighbors as ourselves.”
― Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality