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To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

Bernadette Roberts

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
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Enough Forgiveness Needs
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
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Communication Existence God Silence Total
To go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
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Another Categorized God Perhaps Union
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man’s final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake.
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Assumption Destiny Final Men Mistake Union
This search for perfection – which is a search for divinity – is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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Divinity Existence Perfection Way
It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
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Function Longer Moved Needed Point Tested
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon “that” which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss.
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Bliss Inspirational Life Love New Seeing
I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.
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Breakthrough Movement Nothing Second Speculate
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.
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Desire Lying Missing Ourselves Something
Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you’re still going to be taken along.
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Along Moving Running Spiritual Taken
Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end – and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life.
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Contemplative Journey Life Permanent Self
…a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center.
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Aligned Center Completely Self Trials Wind
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks.
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Before Hills Home Self Shop Track Tracks Turn
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon “that” which remains when it is gone.
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Contemplative Fall Gone Life Remain Self
When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.
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Cyclone Eye Life Longer Storm Suffering
Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
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Aside God Love Mind Realized Reason Self

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

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