August 2024 Paul Betteridge August 2024 Paul Betteridge

The Mystery of Life and Death (repost)

But friends could we possibly detach from the idea that the earthly human being is the eternal being. Could we allow the thought to rise up within us that there is something that is bigger than we are, something that does have eternal value and of which we as earthly human beings are partaking only temporarily.

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November 2023 Paul Betteridge November 2023 Paul Betteridge

The Prayer of Quiet

In this state all the faculties are stilled and have no wish to move, for any movement they may make appears to hinder the soul from loving God. During the prayer of quiet what the soul has to do in the time of this quiet is no more than to be gentle and make no noise.

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Treat Yourself

By restoring his nature to unity, nourishing his vital energy and concentrating his essence, he will penetrate to the origin of things. In that state, in which his heavenly nature is contained completely within itself and his spirit is undivided, how could anything else penetrate?

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Teresa of Avila, Transcending, Liking, and Love

Now it seems to me that those whom God brings to a certain clear knowledge, love very differently than do those who have not reached it. This clear knowledge is about the nature of the world, that there is another world, about the difference between the one and the other, that the one is eternal and the other a dream.

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August 2022 Paul Betteridge August 2022 Paul Betteridge

The Mystery of Life and Death

But friends could we possibly detach from the idea that the earthly human being is the eternal being. Could we allow the thought to rise up within us that there is something that is bigger than we are, something that does have eternal value and of which we as earthly human beings are partaking only temporarily.

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July 2022 Paul Betteridge July 2022 Paul Betteridge

The Forever Gap

Where the personality, driven by the predominantly egocentric consciousness, thinks it should be in life as opposed to where it is.

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April 2022 Paul Betteridge April 2022 Paul Betteridge

Two Kinds of Intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorises facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.

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