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SUMMONS TO LIFE, CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN INSIGHTS
Martin Israel
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"When the awareness of the mind transcends the isolation of the personal self, it establishes an intimate relationship with the other, so that it is no longer merely a subject-object communication. This communication is one in which perceiver and perceived, thinker and thought, subject and object are united into a single all-pervading reality in which duality, or separation, is lost."
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"When the personality is infused by the authenticity of the soul, the will is free and acting under the direct instructions of the Holy Spirit. Then we are indeed participants in God's will."
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"All is one in that ultimate reality which is God."
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"Prayer is as necessary for the soul as air is for the body. The fruit of prayer is vision; the action of prayer is love."
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"The journey downwards into our own inner nature is the way to God….In this realised divinity there is eternal joy."
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"Faith is implanted in the spirit of man."
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"Love is the most exalted knowledge, for it is unitive."
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"The unique identity of each person (and created object) is never impugned or obliterated. On the contrary, it is confirmed and glorified in the eternal presence of which it is both an integral part and a universal whole."
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"In the spiritual life you are confronted by a psychoanalyst who is your own soul guided by the Holy Spirit. When we are most abject we are also most receptive to divine grace."
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"Love is not an emotional response or a feeling. It is a state of willed tranquility in which we can absorb the personality of the other individual and give of our very being to him."
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"Each kindly action changes the perspectives of those in contact with us, and so starts a chain reaction that culminates in a change of heart of many people."
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"In the incarnation of Christ we see the coincidence of the human and the divine wills, separate yet united. And this is the promise for all mankind as it partakes fully of the divine nature deeply ingrained in it."
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"Growth into the fullness of life is a graduated exploration into the meaning and power of love."
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"God reveals Himself to us in all guises provided we have the courtesy to pay attention."
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"In real love, the centre of our being is no longer rooted in the personal self but in the soul, which is in eternal communion, through the spirit, with all other souls and with God."
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"We know most of God when we know ourselves best. It is the movement towards self-knowledge that brings us towards a knowledge of life."
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"Real freedom is far from being a condition in which we are in absolute charge of ourselves according to the personal sefishness we exhibit. It is a state of willed discipline to the highest we know, a knowledge that is innate in the soul, and which, through the gift of faith, is made manifest in our lives."
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"The growth into the fullness of our own being is a growing into a progressively greater knowledge of the being of God."
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"God…comes to us when we are broken, and He mends the personality within us. The gratitude we evince and the depth of understanding with which we are now endowed help us to feel into the sufferings of others. Thus does compassion develop."
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"That we are all members one of another is certain in the experience of the true self. For my identity, though unique, achieves reality only in relationship to the whole body of mankind. Thus the soul is, unlike the outer personality that encloses it in form, never circumscribed or alone. It is in psychic communion with all other souls and in spiritual communion with God."
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"Interpenetrating and transcending the world of phenomenal life there is an order of being that both sustains life and draws it to its final destination. The order of being of which I speak is all-embracing, having no finite parts, and neither beginning nor end. It embraces every created object."
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"In or through His Spirit, God makes His immanence, or indwelling nature, known to us."
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"This is the splendid vision of the mystic, that God is in all His creation, and we, in union with Him, can participate in the transfiguration of matter."
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"The spiritually alive person is aware….that there is a power behind the cosmic flow which is all-powerful and all-caring."
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"God is defined as that which is."
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