“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.” StillsWholeRunningSpiritualMovingLife IsTakenWhole LifeSpiritual LifeLife Is LikeSidewalk Author: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 that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown” MindSelfMomentsMovingDifficultResultsKnowingCuttingConsciousDiscoveryInevitableFixedDimensionsMechanismSelf ConsciousEver AfterEmergenceSuspended Author:Bernadette Roberts
“......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 move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.” SelfMovingReadyGoes OnNeededFunctionUnionsIntimateNew LifeReady To Move On Book:The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey Source: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
