Re: A larger presence, the unknowable total of all there is

On May 16, 11:00 am, tara <jackpine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:47 -0400, small tortoiseshell wrote
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> > Dont know if you have read " Interior Castle' by Teresa of Avila, but
> > if you havent, there might be valuable lessons to find there as she
> > expounds on the nature of prayer and meditation as perhaps no other
> > female christian contemplative have ever done before. ..
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> > you can download it from
here:http://www.ccel.org/ccel/teresa/castle2.html
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> > Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone;
> > for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at
> > everything and we might well learn very im****tant lessons from the
> > persons who shock us. Our outward com****tment and behaviour may be
> > better than theirs, but this, though good, is not the most im****tant
> > thing: there is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel
> > by our own road, and we should not attempt to point them to the
> > spiritual path when perhaps we do not know what it is."
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> > St. Teresa of Avila
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> Well here is a book for you.  Even Steven, eh.

Even Steven?

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> "Prayer: The Hidden Fire" -A Practical and Personal Approach to
Awakening a
> Greater Intimacy with God.
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> by Tom Harpur.

thanks for the recommendation, but the guy is a anglican expriest and
canadian tv.star that has gone new agy and renounces Jesus as a
historical person and thinks that he is really the god horus of the
egyptians instead. so thanks, but no thanks :)


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> "A prayer can be a phrase of a few informal words, a one-or two-word
> exclamation; it can be uttered in no words at all - a sigh too deep to
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> verbalized"

It can be silence too.



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