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The Real Thing
I only wish the Christians of today could see for once that what they stand for is not Christianity at all but a god-awful legalistic religion from which the founder himself tried to free them by following his voice and his vocation to the bitter end…
— Carl Jung
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I got saved by the beauty of the world.
— Mary Oliver
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For a full life ~ and very probably for our survival ~ we must fully inhabit our bodies
Which are, naturally, in union with all of the natural world.
We’ve become very used to the prosthetic limbs of technology and civilization, but we are heir to a better way.
— Skye Daniels
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How much charity and compassion have we for our own weakness and sickness?”
The ego must learn to give way, to “listen,” “serve,” and “discover an ability to love even the least of these traits’
I use the term ‘cure of the shadow’ to emphasize the importance of love.
…to cure those fixed intractable congenital weaknesses of stubbornness and blindness, of meanness and cruelty, of sham and pomp, we come up against the need for a new way of being altogether…
