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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.

Bernadette Roberts

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
My purpose here is to affirm that the unitive state is a hidden path in itself, a movement in its own right that ultimately leads to no-self (no true-self and no-union). In short, the unitive state is the hidden path to no-self.
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Affirm Path Purpose State True Union
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
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
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
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
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Experience God Reality Way
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
But this going-out is an upheaval, a complete turnabout of such proportions it cannot possibly be missed, under-emphasized, or sufficiently stressed as a major landmark in the contemplative life.
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Emphasized Landmark Major Possible Proportion Sufficient Under
…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
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
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
When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one’s unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.
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Alone Deeper Expression Nothing Personality Unique
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
This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.
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Beyond Claim Experience God Objectivity Union
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
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

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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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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