“I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.” LittlesTwoSelfWholeJesusNeighborCommandGod LoveTwo ThingsLive BySimplestLeaving MeConsumingLittle Time Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.” IfsWantMeanSelfEgoFindingsLosingNeighborFinding Myself Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.” ThinkingHas BeensSelfOrderFoundChristianityMessagesToxic Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.” PeopleKindSelfMomentsHappensEyeLossConsciousnessLosingAll KindsGorgeousSelf Consciousness Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.” WorldSelfTraditionImpedimentsSelf AbsorbedGreat Wisdom Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.” IfsWorldHumansSelfHelpingUseSpiritualHuman BeingsSpringPrisonNeighborHardestEncountersConvinceSpiritual Work Book:An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
