"To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven."

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Source : Bernadette Roberts (2005). “What is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness”, p.16, Sentient Publications

Bernadette Roberts

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“Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.”
“Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.”
“If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.”
“I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.”
“Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.”
“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?”
“If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.”
“There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”

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