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I am a strong supporter of those who bring back the stories of their heritages, preserving them, saving them from death by neglect. Of course, it is the old people who are the bones of the entire healing and spiritual structures everywhere on the face of the earth.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The church loses personhood, and resonance (becoming alienated from life), when its relations are made into instruments for acquiring resources. And relationships that are made into instruments can be used only for accruing resources.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Edwards saw himself as the first, or lead, priest amongst a priesthood of all believers. The stick was there to raise all up to the speed of priesthood, giving them direct access (an awakening) to the sacred.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
that psyche and nature are intrinsic. There is a conversational relationship between the inner and outer worlds, a dynamic reciprocity which can be strengthened by our tending to their equivalence.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Yannaras asserts that to understand God is to never see God as an atomistic being. To do so will lead us to assume that God uses relationships for instrumental ends. Rather, starting with the contemplation of the Trinity, Yannaras reveals that this overconcern with epistemology not only has turned our relationships into instruments but has hampered
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