"I went on to discover that in its……" — 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, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us..."
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Bernadette Roberts
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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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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze…
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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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More Animate Quotes
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure…
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out…
— Leonard Cohen
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of…
— Jeff Foxworthy
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society…
— Albert Hofmann
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
— Louis Sullivan
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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As…
— William J. Clinton
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Unknown Author
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