We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.
We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed__ecause certainly revelation is available outside of dogma; indeed all dogma, if it__ alive at all, is the result of revelation at one time or another__ut gathered in. Definite beliefs are what make the radical mystery__hose moments when we suddenly know there is a God, about whom we __now_ absolutely nothing__ccessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives. And more crucially: definite beliefs enable us to withstand the storms of suffering that come into every life, and that tend to destroy any spiritual disposition that does not have deep roots.
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed__ecause certainly revelation is available outside of dogma; indeed all dogma, if it__ alive at all, is the result of revelation at one time or another__ut gathered in. Definite beliefs are what make the radical mystery__hose moments when we suddenly know there is a God, about whom we __now_ absolutely nothing__ccessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives. And more crucially: definite beliefs enable us to withstand the storms of suffering that come into every life, and that tend to destroy any spiritual disposition that does not have deep roots.
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