"We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be â€˜lost in the objectivity of world-loveâ€™, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is â€˜eternalâ€™ life."

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Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Don Cupitt

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