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“The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.”

Book:Beyond Words and Thoughts

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Beyond Words and Thoughts

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Joel S. Goldsmith

Joel S. Goldsmith was a renowned author whose works primarily focused on spirituality and personal growth. He was born on March 10, 1892, and passed away on June 17, 1964. more

“Within the time span of a single generation surrounding the year 1500, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael created their many masterworks of the High Renaissance, revealing the birth of the new human as much in da Vinci's multiform genius and the godlike incarnations of the David and the Sistine Creation of Adam as in the new perspectival objectivity and poietic empowerment of the Renaissance artist; Columbus sailed west and reached America, Vasco da Gama sailed east and reached India, and the Magellan expedition circumnavigated the globe, opening the world forever to itself; Luther posted his theses on the door of the Wittenberg castle church and began the enormous convulsion of Europe and the Western psyche called the Reformation; and Copernicus conceived the heliocentric theory and began the even more momentous Scientific Revolution. From this instant, the human self, the known world, the cosmos, heaven and earth were all radically and irrevocably transformed. All this happened within a period of time briefer than that which has passed since Woodstock and the Moon landing. (p. 4)”

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Book:Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

Source: Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

“When he got to his feet, the miasma lingered. It came to Shane that he could never remove Jesse from his conscience because he would never be able to forgive himself if he did. Without question, there were some sins that could not be forgiven.”

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Book:The Little Bird

Source: The Little Bird

“There are some sins that can never be forgiven, for to do so would be to commit a far greater sin.”

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Book:The Little Bird

Source: The Little Bird