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“From the very beginning of the Quakers, George Fox understood that silence is of God, a powerful catalyst for the soul’s integration and unification.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“We might think that the deeper we dig into our own being, the further we travel from God; that’s one way Christianity has regarded the inner self, as a source of sin and separation from God. Quakers, however—and other holistic mystics through the ages—believe that at the deepest level of our beings lies Kelly’s Last Rock, the preexistent Word of John’s Gospel (John 1:1–5). Mental and emotional commotion obscure this bedrock, but someone practiced in disciplined silence spends more and more time absorbed in this Ground of Our Being.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“I intuitively knew what Quakers have always known: that silence is God’s primary love language.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“Now is our ultimate priority. Everything else can wait. Now requires that we neglect all pressing demands and attend to what is most important, this precious moment in its infinite possibilities and potential.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“Many Quakers embody the dynamic of contemplation and activism. Inward-focused contemplation compliments outward-focused missions to prisons, polluted rivers, and plastic-bloated seas.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“I have been a skeptic all my life, and it took me a long time to affirm the Seed of Christ through actual experience. Like scientists, I ultimately trust experience….”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“The same Bible verse may say something entirely different to you from what it does to me, based on our individual contexts. In other words, scripture is not monolithic. When we approach it prayerfully, it is personal.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.”

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Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.”

Christian Mystics Nondual Jesus Paradox

Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“The Alexandrian Mystics’ emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.”

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Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“Daring greatly’ requires nothing less than a cleansing of the heart—or what the Desert Elders called ‘purity of heart.’ My best stab at what they meant by this is what I call wholeheartedness. This means we are ‘all in.’ We no longer hold anything back. We can contrast ‘all in’ with ‘half-hearted.’ Purity of heart is unwavering commitment and resolve, void of duplicity.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

“Theology at its best doesn’t seek to solve, but to behold.”

Christian Mystics Jesus Paradox

Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.”

Christian Mystics Jesus Paradox

Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can “rest in God.”

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Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“From the perspective of Christianity’s Desert Tradition, prayer is the most vital aspect of faith. Without prayer and experiences of the infinite, Christianity loses its guts.”

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Book:Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

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