Bernadette Roberts - The path to no-self (1985)

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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

Bernadette Roberts

This search for perfection — which is a search for divinity — is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Bernadette Roberts

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

Bernadette Roberts

The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake. My purpose here is to affirm that the unitive state is a hidden path in itself, a movement in its own right that ultimately leads to no-self (no true-self and no-union). In short, the unitive state is the hidden path to no-self.

Bernadette Roberts

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Bernadette Roberts