Sometimes, when we consider really praying, coming close to God (or, perhaps more accurately, letting God come close), we fear what God might expect of us — some great trial, some difficult deed — or we fear that we will be asked to give up what is most precious to us — a loved one, a lifestyle.
We're right to be afraid, but these fears are a kind of projection: the truth is far worse: God wants us to give up our very selves, our lives.
Oh souls created for his greatness and summoned to it - what are you doing?!
The Maytrees were young long ago. They lived on what still seems antiquity's very surface.
If You Want to be Understood...Listen
It's intimacy without intricacy.
The good ones screw you, the bad ones screw you, and the rest don't know how to screw you.
There's two kinds of people in this world, there's winners and there's losers. Okay, you know what the difference is? Winners don't give up.
You get treated like a dumb animal long enough, that's what you become. You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember.
There is no secret ingredient ...
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
It is [the] wounded sense of self, [the] sense of emptiness and isolation, which underlies the violence, addiction and greed disrupting our live.
Part of the tremendous power of addictions is that they offer ways of avoiding the threat of nonbeing.
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