"It is one step, and a giant one,……" — Bernadette Roberts
"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. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so."
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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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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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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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