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Detaching the sense of identity from the descriptions of yourself

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The first task, clearly, is to detach the sense of identity from the descriptions of yourself. This does not mean to find another description that would be the correct one. […]

Enduring the tedium

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You have to endure the tedium until something gradually emerges in it. ~ Br. Raphael Robin

Hermeneutics is always a wager

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Hermeneutics is always a wager: that if your premise is right, you’ll live it into existence. ~ Br. Raphael Robin

Christ will storm the hell in you

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Here, now is the right time to wrestle before the divine presence. If you stand firm, if you do not bend, you will see and perceive great wonders. You will […]

The Water Wheel

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Stay together, friends.Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is madeof being awake. The waterwheel accepts waterand turns and gives it away,weeping. That way it stays in the garden,whereas another roundnessrolls […]

Seeking Wisdom

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If you seek Wisdom in the first place, you will find that Wisdom is joyous. If you seek the joy of Wisdom in the first place, you will fall prey […]

Authentic Spiritual Experience

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He who aspires to authentic spiritual experiences never confounds the intensity of the experience undergone with the truth that is revealed. [He does not regard the force of impact as a criterion […]

A Point of Nothingness

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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs […]