Once upon a time there was a Greek philosopher who told one of his disciples to give money to anyone who insulted him, for three years. At the end of this period of testing the master said to him, “Now you may go to Athens to learn wisdom.” Entering Athens the disciple met a wise man who was sitting by […]
Great endeavors and hard struggles await those who are converted, but afterwards inexpressible joy. If you want to light a fire, you are troubled at first by smoke, and your eyes water. But in the end you achieve your aim. Now it is written: Our God is a consuming fire. So we must light the divine fire in us with […]
There is only one great life. I can enter into the experience only if I have first come to unity in myself, only if I have come to be whole. Jeanne de Salzmann (1889 – 1990)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
But to come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons, and to be utterly alone. Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987)
“Don’t look for God,” the Master said. “Just look, and all will be revealed.” “But how is one to look?” “Each time you look at anything, see only what is there and nothing else.” The disciples were bewildered, so the Master made it simpler: “For instance: when you look at the moon, see the moon and nothing else.” “What else could […]
“Is there anything that I can do to make myself enlightened?” “As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.” “Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?” “To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.” Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987)
From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Like the monist I plunge into the all-inclusive One. But the one is so perfect that as it receives me and I lose myself in it, I can find in it the ultimate perfection of my own individuality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
