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That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

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Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann

John Main

John Main

Born: 1926
Died: 1982 (aged 56)
Bio: John Main was a Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who presented a way of Christian meditation which utilised a prayer-phrase or mantra.
Known for:
  1. Word into silence
  2. The heart of creation
  3. Moment of Christ
  4. Door to Silence
  5. The way of unknowing

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