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Bernadette Roberts Quotes: 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 be taken along.
         

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 be taken along.


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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 be taken along.
         



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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 be taken along.

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When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.



The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.



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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.



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In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.



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To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.



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Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.





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