

“It鈥檚 a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your 鈥淚鈥 is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary 鈥淚.鈥 No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.”
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“All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don鈥檛 need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you鈥檒l find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect.
That place is called freedom. It鈥檚 the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don鈥檛 feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .”
― Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer
That place is called freedom. It鈥檚 the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don鈥檛 feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .”
― Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer

“People who鈥檝e had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don鈥檛 know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.”
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“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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