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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.

Bernadette Roberts

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
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
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
Rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in “that” which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself
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Beyond Come Have Immovable Love Rest Tried Union
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
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
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
Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my “self”.
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Empty Flood Instead Missing Moment Nothing Seeing
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 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
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
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
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
…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
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

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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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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