“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.” WorldDoeRealSoulEyeChristianUnderstandingViewsOpinionPrinciplesCasesHappenedPurePerceptionFoundationIntellectAccessScriptureScalesFormerRelyOrthodoxFacultySensibleProvidingVisionariesLiteralPreventingCfsLogosPreconceptionsReal KnowledgeSense Perception Author:Maximus the Confessor
“By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?” MenNeedsMeanSaidSoulMovingUniverseBornEnlightenmentStriveRateScriptureFactorsBuddhistScholarshipUnborn Book:An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers
“The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.” MenHeartChildrenMadeSoulLightDarknessSunFireScriptureRisingYieldTorchesStarlight Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.” MayBookSoulBibleScriptureFacultyBowsCriticise Author:Edward Norris Kirk