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Born To Love
When we get information through our intuition, we don’t know where it comes from…
… In order to be able to get anything from the future, I have to be in the place of not knowing.
People whose minds are closed say, “If it isn’t in a text from before, then it doesn’t exist.” What we are saying is…there is a future that is drawing us.”
- Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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…Rilke said about that period that the only courage this demanded of us, was to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, the most inexplicable, that which we may encounter.
Mankind, in this sense, has been cowardly and has done life endless harm. The experiences that are called visions, the whole so called spirit world, death, all these things that are so closely akin to us have been, by daily parrying, so crowded out of our life, that the sense with which we could have grasped them are atrophied, to say nothing of God…
— Ram Dass
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The work of soul–making is concerned essentially with the evocation of psychological faith…
Psychological faith begins in the love of images, and it flows mainly through the shapes of persons in reveries, fantasies, reflections, and imaginations. Their increasing vivification gives one an…