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Act of Rebellion
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
— Joseph Campbell
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I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
— Alan Watts
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The ultimate act of rebellion is insisting on compassion and grace in a compassionless world.
— olofahere
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Stop trusting that the arc of the moral universe will simply bend toward justice — and decide to be arc benders.
— John Pavlovitz
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For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered Nothingness.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
~Meister Eckhart
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Getting to the truth of our situation is unnecessarily complex because of our social and religious beliefs. We resist considering the idea that…
