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 …

- Bernadette Roberts

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

- Bernadette Roberts

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.

- Bernadette Roberts

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, …

- Bernadette Roberts

...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 …

- Bernadette Roberts

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…

- Bernadette Roberts

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 …

- Bernadette Roberts

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.

- Bernadette Roberts

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

- Bernadette Roberts