On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
James K. A. Smithamazon.com
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
When we live with the tension of the personal will directed toward an imagined future, we live in a mind-world maze of possibilities instead of the vivid aliveness of intimacy with what is.
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
The longing that Augustine describes is less like curiosity and more like hunger—less like an intellectual puzzle to be solved and more like a craving for sustenance (see Ps. 42:1–2).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
However, if you glimpse that the spiritual journey inevitably unveils nothing less than the very reason for being, the truth of existence, the infinite majesty of your own innate divinity expressed in the whole of reality, you do not hesitate to walk the path presented to you in each moment. To truly follow your bliss means that you would willingly
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