Favorite Quotes
WISDOM SAYINGS
Wisdom Sayings are a collection of thoughts and quotes that have guided and inspired my journey. They’ve puzzled and provoked me. I’ve added comments below the ones that have been most meaningful to me.
There is no way of telling people they are all walking around shining like the sun. (Thomas Merton)
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“Ultimately the only way I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence. Therefore, there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him, I will find myself, and if I find my true self I will find Him.”
This passage from Thomas Merton's book, New Seeds of Contemplation, was like the beacon from a lighthouse for my journey.
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“…The basic disposition in the spiritual journey is the capacity to accept all reality; God, ourselves, other people, and all creation as they are.”
—Fr. Thomas Keating
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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
—Fr. Pierre Teihard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and philosopher
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"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
- Julian of Norwich
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
—Winston Churchill
Wisdom Sayings are a collection of thoughts and quotes that have guided and inspired my journey. They’ve puzzled and provoked me. I’ve added comments below the ones that have been most meaningful to me.
There is no way of telling people they are all walking around shining like the sun. (Thomas Merton)
~~~
“Ultimately the only way I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence. Therefore, there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him, I will find myself, and if I find my true self I will find Him.”
This passage from Thomas Merton's book, New Seeds of Contemplation, was like the beacon from a lighthouse for my journey.
~~~
“…The basic disposition in the spiritual journey is the capacity to accept all reality; God, ourselves, other people, and all creation as they are.”
—Fr. Thomas Keating
~~~
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
—Fr. Pierre Teihard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and philosopher
~~~
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
- Julian of Norwich
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
—Winston Churchill