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Reflected light under the South Bantaskine Road Bridge over the Union Canal in Falkirk, Scotland. This is on the John Muir Way a 134 mile long distance walk from Helensburgh in the west to Dunbar in the east. Taken on an iPhone 8 Plus.
The violent love of God breaks through deafness and blindness; the violent desire of human souls for God breaks through dumbness. The heart has no words, but it cannot contain itself in silence: ‘Love grown cold in the heart’s silence; love on fire, the heart’s clamour’ (in Ps. 36.14).
--The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.”
-Jean Vanier
Union with God is not something we can or need to acquire. By way of the contemplative skills of engaged receptivity and release, we realize this Union ever more deeply and clearly throughout the course of the days given us. God is too simple to be absent. It is we who, with complicated and cluttered minds, remain unaware that this foundational Light is flowering perpetually in the fertile and unfathomable right now.
-An Ocean of Light Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation-Martin Laird, O.S.A.
“The soul takes her being immediately from God: therefore God is nearer to the soul than she is to herself, and therefore God is in the ground of the soul with all His Godhead.”
-Meister Eckhart, Sermon 66, in Meister Eckhart: Sermons and Treatises, vol. 2, trans. and ed. M. O’C. Walshe (Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books, 1979), 139.