The Human Condition

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"Repentance is the nourisher of piety, the procurer of mercy."

— Thomas Watson

The Doctrine of Repentance
"The two great graces essential to a saint in this life, are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven."

— Thomas Watson

The Doctrine of Repentance
"While the prayer of words is an attempt to express to ourselves our dependence on the great mystery, the prayer of silence is not so much to express, but to experience, that dependence."

— Richard Rohr

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
"In the inward man dwells truth."

— Saint Augustine of Hippo

On True Religion
"You will not attain the good, until you give freely of what you love."

— Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

Sufi Conference 2008 - Opening Talk with Pir Zia Inayat-Khan & Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"No one is truly ever gone, since all of us and our connections began at the Big Bang, the explosion of oneness into oneness, and have never come to an end."

— David Richo

Everything Ablaze: Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
"With spiritual awareness, everyone’s wholeness matters."

— David Richo

Wholeness and Holiness
"Nothing changes till it becomes what it is."

— Fritz Perls

As cited in Homecoming
"Once something appears before you, ask yourself what is happening inside you and around you—what you are in the midst of experiencing."

— Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len

As cited in The Book of Ho’oponopono
"If psychologists and psychiatrists would be in dialogue with the insights of St. John of the Cross and those who experience the dark nights, there could be a marvelous symbiosis of treatment. We are not sick just because of some physiological pathology. It is not just a question of sin either; it is a question of the human condition, for which none of us is initially responsible but, on becoming adults, we are now called to be responsible."

— Father Thomas Keating

The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation