“In cultures where asceticism developed and was practiced, people knew that one can suffocate when every option is a readily available one. Without self-limitation, without fixed boundaries - like those given in creation between day and night, summer and winter,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“If asceticism is to he something different today than this pre-modern denial of autonomy and self-determination, it must he conceived of differently and in nonsexist terms. It must start from the existing dependency of the ego on the world of… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“What do ego-lessness and becoming unattached mean in connection with today's mystical way in the form of resistance? . . . What is missing… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“If we had possessions, Francis would say, we would also need weapons. He held on to the inescapable link of poverty and peace.” — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“All mysticism is part of the endeavor to escape from this fate of language that serves the exercise of power, control, and possession. Traditional… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“This situation where we are not quite what we do, where we kiss, drink, work, laugh, or meditate only with part of ourselves, is… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked.” — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“In monotheistic patriarchal perception, a miracle is an external intervention that suspends the laws of nature. God's rule over nature, the body, time, and… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“The story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 1o) can he interpreted mystically in such a way that the question of the knowledge of God… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“In such mysticism of prayer, the relationship of domination between God and humans has been transformed into one of love. That is precisely the… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Matthew Fox who, particularly in his new reading of Meister Eckhart, depicts quite early in human history the mystical way of creation spirituality. Fox's… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However, from the… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
