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Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

Richard J. Foster

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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Four Goal Years
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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Air Earth Toxic Waste
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
Prayer is simply saying “thank you, bless you, praise you.”
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Bless Praise Prayer
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
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Age Satisfaction Spiritual
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
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Determination Honesty Spiritual
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
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Order People Solitude
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.
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Country Environmental Moving
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
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Emptiness Loneliness Solitude
..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately….Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.
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People Prayer Test
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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Attachment Insane Needs
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come “underneath,” where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
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Assuming Prayer Way
He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
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Arms Heart Home
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
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Discipline Dream Spiritual
Simplicity is freedom.
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Freedom Happen Simplicity

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