"False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia"

-- Basil Pennington

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“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.”
“It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography â€” but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.”
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”
“If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.”

Source : "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.
“The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”
“A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.”
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
“In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.”

Source : Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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