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God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites. The Israelites believed that God told them to kill the Canaanites.
“In the strictest sense wholeness cannot be a direct objective. We approach or progress toward wholeness by participating in the conversion process. That is our clear and direct objective, participation in the conversion process. And there is something we can do about that. We can begin by embarking upon the journey inward. We can learn to pray. We can learn to pray by first being quiet before God.”
― Christian Wholeness: Spiritual Direction for Today
― Christian Wholeness: Spiritual Direction for Today
“Trying to express the leaf, the carvers inadvertently had expressed themselves. But it was a superior kind of self-expression, coming not from narcissism or exhibitionism, but from a union with their subject. It was unconscious, unintended: an unimportant side effect....If you want to express yourself, stop expressing yourself. Better yet, stop wanting to express yourself....Forget yourself. It will improve your work. Let the things you make proceed by their own design.”
― The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
― The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
“...to admit to oneself the presence within oneself of angry, aggressive feelings is essential to one's wholeness.”
― Christian Wholeness: Spiritual Direction for Today
― Christian Wholeness: Spiritual Direction for Today
“The unique book, which contains the whole, could only be the sacred text, the total word revealed. But I do not believe totality can be contained in language; my problem is what remains outside, the unwritten, the unwritable. The only way left me is that of writing all books, writing the books of all possible authors.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Quite out of the blue a bizarre and compelling idea came into my head today: that we have ended up as human beings through forgetfulness, through lack of attention, and that in reality we are creatures participating in a vast, cosmic battle that has probably been going on since time immemorial and which, for all we know, may never end. All we see of it are glimmers, in blood-red moons, in fires and gales, in frozen leaves that fall in October, in the jittery flight of a butterfly, in the irregular pulse of time that can lengthen a night into infinity or come to a violent stop each day at noon. I am actually an angel or a demon sent into the turmoil of one life on a sort of mission, which is either carrying itself out without my help, or else I have totally forgotten about it. This forgetfulness is part of the war--it's the other side's weapon, and they've attacked me with it so that I'm wounded, invalided out of the game for a while. As a result, I don't know how powerful or how weak I am--I don't know anything about myself because I can't remember anything, and that's why I don't try to look for either weakness or power in myself. It's an extraordinary feeling--to imagine that somewhere deep inside, you are someone completely different from the person you always thought you were. But it didn't make me feel anxious, just relieved, finally free of a kind of weariness that used to permeate my life.”
― House of Day, House of Night
― House of Day, House of Night
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