The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
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Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.”
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As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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