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> [It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/it-is-one-step-and-a-giant-one-to-see-clearly-and-participate-in-the/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

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## More by Bernadette Roberts

> [When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/when-one-is-perfectly-still-mind-and-body-silent-and-alone-there-is/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/the-truest-communication-with-god-is-absolute-total-silence-there-is/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/this-search-for-perfection-which-is-a-search-for-divinity-is-nothing/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/this-journey-then-is-nothing-more-yet-nothing-less-than-a-period-of/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/it-is-one-step-and-a-giant-one-to-see-clearly-and-participate-in-the/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/it-is-far-more-than-the-discovery-of-life-without-a-self-the/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/the-assumption-that-the-egoless-condition-or-union-of-self-and-god-is/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/but-coming-home-that-day-walking-downhill-with-a-panorama-of-valley/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/the-onset-of-this-second-movement-is-characterized-by-the-falling/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/spiritual-life-is-like-a-moving-sidewalk-whether-you-go-with-it-or/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/a-point-is-reached-where-the-self-is-so-completely-aligned-with-the/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/when-there-is-no-longer-a-cyclone-there-is-no-longer-an-eye-so-the/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/in-some-ways-all-our-experiences-of-god-are-beyond-belief-because-all/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/i-went-on-to-discover-that-in-its-deepest-sense-the-will-is-not/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

> [Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernadette-roberts/only-god-is-love-and-for-this-love-to-be-fully-realized-self-must/)

[Bernadette Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernadette-roberts/)

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