“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe: inertia, ill pleasure (acedia), nausea, laziness (pigrita), dullness (tarditas). All these terms pointed to a joyless, antimystical condition:… — 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
“When he was twenty-three years old, he (George Fox) saw the inner light in a vision. For him it symbolized the spirit against the… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“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,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence means to forego the desire to win and to avoid the defeat of enemies, which always includes their humiliation. The issues of peace,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
