Birth: 1931
To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven..
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being ….
It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen….
......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to mov….
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But this going-o….
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake. My purpose here is ….
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, ….
...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 ….
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication..
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..
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 reaso….
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..
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is..
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 contemplati….
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality..
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 somet….
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 t….
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 g….
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving..