"But coming home that day, walking downhill with……" — 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 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 I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self"."
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11 Quotes by Bernadette Roberts
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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey…
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Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it,…
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Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do…
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It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the…
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This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing,…
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I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for…
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It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into…
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The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains…
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...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be…
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......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can…
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