Wisdom Quotes

The gospel’s secret power

The gospel’s secret power, often hardly glimpsed by Christianity itself, is the gathering up of all our passion, our entropic centrifugal energy, our very outward thrust and vital compulsivity, secularity, […]

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God is the unity

At this point in my thinking, it is not enough for me to proclaim that God is responsible for all this unity. Instead, I want to proclaim that God is […]

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Mercy and truth are met together

Man in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risk he takes. But no; our choice is of no importance. There […]

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This total mind we call heart

We have subtle subconscious faculties we are not using. Beyond the limited analytic intellect lies a vast realm of mind that includes psychic and extra-sensory abilities; intuition; wisdom; a sense […]

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Keep your attention within yourself

You should observe three things before all else: freedom from all cares, not only about bad and vain but even about good things…your conscience should be clear so that it […]

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As your being increases

As your being increases, your receptivity to higher meaning increases; as your being decreases, the old meanings return. ~ Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff

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Faith is a continual inner effort

Faith is a continual inner effort, a continual altering of the mind, of the habitual ways of thought, of the habitual ways of taking everything, of habitual reactions. ~ Maurice […]

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We must be still and still moving

Old men ought to be explorers,Here and there does not matter.We must be still and still movingInto another intensityFor a further union, a deeper communion. ~ T.S. Eliot, The Four […]

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