"the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it."

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Source : Edith Stein (2016). “Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”, p.83, ICS Publications

Edith Stein

#Order Quotes #World Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.”
“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”
“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press
“Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.”
“You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.”
“Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.”
“[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.”
“But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.”

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