John Main famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.
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Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness...by letting to in meditation we learn how to love.
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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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In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be
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The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.
-- John Main
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
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Out of His fullness we receive, and grace for grace, - like wave upon wave.
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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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As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'
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Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.
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Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.
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The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.
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