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"One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway. We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality."
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"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"

"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."

"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

"Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%."

"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."

"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."

"You can save hundred words with just one look!"

"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"
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"You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life."

"True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude."

"A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we'll talk God into it. We think, 'If I say it one more time, God will agree with me. That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it 'right or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong!19 minutes ago"

"Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside."

"Christians are usually sincere and well - intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast - food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of 'Christian' countries that tend to be as consumer - oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else - and often more so, I'm afraid."

"It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer - lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on."

"You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better."
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