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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.
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This search for perfection — which is a search for divinity — is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
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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.
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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.
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Bernadette Roberts
Born:
1931
Died:
November 27, 2017
(aged 86)
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