purity

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.

I find it appalling that the Church claims Mary consented at the age of thirteen to become the mother of God.___ut she did,_ James said. __here is ample evidence to show she consented.___sn__ that the classic defense of the pedophile?_ Helena asked. __n Christ__ time and even today in some countries in the Middle East and India, child marriages are customary. But that doesn__ make it right. In Europe and the U.S. we prosecute adults for preying on children. God would be arrested for impregnating a girl below the age of consent.___eople didn__ live as long then,_ James said.Helena would not back down. __ut human biology hasn__ changed. My point is she was too young to consent. The brain of a young teenager isn__ fully developed.___he mysteries of the faith require us to have faith._ __on__ hide behind that nonsense. What kind of message is the Church sending to women? Only virgin children are pure? Experienced mothers are impure and unfit to raise Christ? It__ creepy and insulting when you think about it, but you would have me suspend rational judgment and just accept something I would tear your eyes out for thinking about my underage sister?

[Christ__] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way.

A clean house is a sad house.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.

Gnani Purush_ (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.

Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

what ismore beautifultears, in someone__ eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.