“Sacrifice, surrender, negation, are inherently involved in any great onwardmarching life. They go with any choice that can be made of a rich and intense life. It is impossible to find without losing, to get without giving, to live without dying. But sacrifice, surrender, negation, are never for their own sake; they are never ends in themselves. They are involved in life itself.” ChristianitySacrificeFriendsSurrenderInner LifeContemplative LifeChristian MysticismQuakerismWay Of Negation Book:The Inner Life Source: The Inner Life
“It is not strange that a synoptic writer reports the saying: 'No man knoweth the Father but the Son.' The passage as it stands reported in Matthew may be colored by later theology, but there is a nucleus of absolute truth hidden in the saying. There is no other way to know God but this way of inner love-experience.” LoveGodJesusDevotionOnenessCommunionDivine LoveChristian MysticismQuakersQuakerism Book:The Inner Life Source: The Inner Life
“His [Jesus'] so-called ethics ... is indivisibly bound up with His attitude toward the unseen, with His experience of a realm where what ought to be, really is.” GodTruthJesusMoralityEthicsMysticismNondualityUnseenHeavensQuakerism Book:The Inner Life Source: The Inner Life