“This kind of unmasking and refusing complicity is part of the simplicity of lifestyle. Simplicity, the rejection of consumerism and opting for… — Dorothee Soelle Simplicity 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… — Dorothee Soelle Peace 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… — Dorothee Soelle Disguises 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… — Dorothee Soelle Desire to win Copy Share Image
“For me, the step from impotence to the power of the weak is more important than another transition that many of us… — Dorothee Soelle Impotence Copy Share Image
“The basis of spiritual renewal is not the guilt feelings that frequently arise in sensitized individuals in rich industrial societies. Instead, it… — Dorothee Soelle Regret Copy Share Image
“The author of the book of job wrestles with such questions. Can faith in God be free of ulterior motives and interests?… — Dorothee Soelle Books Copy Share Image
“What can be learned here is that often making do with less means having more energy and time for other things. Our… — Dorothee Soelle Freedom Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest mystics of Islam is Mansur al-Hallaj (al-Husayn ibn Mansur Hallaj) (858-9z2- C.E.). With a passion unknown before him,… — Dorothee Soelle God 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… — Dorothee Soelle Self 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,… — Dorothee Soelle Aspects of life 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… — Dorothee Soelle Change Copy Share Image
“Can faith in God be free of ulterior motives and interests? Can there be such a thing at all? Is there something… — Dorothee Soelle Faith Copy Share Image
“Center and periphery" is a model for explaining this situation on our one earth. It makes apparent how the minority in the… — Dorothee Soelle Nature 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,… — Dorothee Soelle Consumerism 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… — Dorothee Soelle First step 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,… — Dorothee Soelle Miracle Copy Share Image
“Go where you can accomplish something!" seems to he the imperative that has more rationality. What is to be learned from mystical… — Dorothee Soelle Accomplish Copy Share Image
“God calls upon the soul to give away its own ears and eyes and to let itself be given those of God.… — Dorothee Soelle Living life 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… — Dorothee Soelle Fitness Copy Share Image
“The topic of disinterested, non-calculating, and purposeless love for the sake of love is central to mysticism as such. To love God,… — Dorothee Soelle Love 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.… — Dorothee Soelle Day and night 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… — Dorothee Soelle Bible Copy Share Image
“The connection between radical attentiveness, prayer, and joy pervades Jewish mystical thinking in its diverse phases but never so brightly, so every-day-related,… — Dorothee Soelle Day life Copy Share Image
“What do ego-lessness and becoming unattached mean in connection with today's mystical way in the form of resistance? . . . What… — Dorothee Soelle Different life Copy Share Image
“Luther's opponent in the Peasants' War, Thomas Muntzer is deeply rooted in mystic tradition . . . Muntzer calls the first step… — Dorothee Soelle First step 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… — Dorothee Soelle Human dignity Copy Share Image
“The trivialization of life is perhaps the strongest anti-mystical force among us. Some people are literally obsessed by the compulsion to trivialize… — Dorothee Soelle Dreams 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… — Dorothee Soelle Civil disobedience 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… — Dorothee Soelle Asceticism Copy Share Image
“Among the first questions a native mother asks her child in the morning is: what did you dream? When I heard this… — Dorothee Soelle Childhood Copy Share Image
“What Francis heard on February 24, 1208, was this: go and preach, even without formation or ordination! No gold, no silver, no… — Dorothee Soelle Position of power Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe:… — Dorothee Soelle Idleness Copy Share Image
