An Ocean of Light Quotes

“The sponge looks within and sees only the ocean of God. The sponge looks without and sees only the ocean of God, but not all of the ocean of God is within the sponge.”
― Martin Laird, An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

“The marketing and advertising cultures pervade our culture and invade our spiritual lives. The practice of contemplation is not beyond the reach of their greed. Spiritual greed and the forces of the market economy turn spirituality in general into an industry, a product that sits on a shelf and sells well. Even more sadly, this culture reinforces an already deeply ingrained, habituated conviction that we are separate from God as from an object. We therefore think we need a spiritual strategy, such as the practice of contem-plation, to acquire something that has never been entirely lost to begin with; once acquired (or so we think), we possess it. Once possessed, we attempt to control what we think a spiritual life should look like. Spirituality is co-opted into a highly attractive, egoic enterprise. Rowan Williams states the matter as boldly as it can be, 'It [contemplation] is a deeply revolutionary matter.'" (pp. 12-13)”
― Martin Laird, An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

“movement”
― Martin Laird, An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

“self that”
― Martin Laird, An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

“divine i”
― Martin Laird, An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation