Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough;… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
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,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication. — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share
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 another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object.… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share
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… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone.… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
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… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
...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… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
