"The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it."

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Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Barbara Brown Taylor

#Spiritual Quotes #Spring Quotes #Self Quotes

“I'm always looking for something different to do at the gym.”
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”
“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.”
“I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.”
“There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.”
“All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.”
“Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.”

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