Quotes about Experience

spirituality" which means that things are only found to be true in the doing of them.

experience as "mercy, within mercy, within mercy."6 There's always a lot of anxiety and insecurity in letting go of your current images of yourselves and your images of God.

Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.

Just because you do not have the right word for God does not mean you are not having the right experience.

Theologically and objectively speaking, we are already in union with God. But it is very hard for people to believe or experience this when they have no positive sense of identity

n the second day, God separated heaven from earth (Genesis 1:6-8). Genesis does not say that the second day was good, because it is not good to separate heaven from earth. A deep religious experience will reveal that there is only one world, one reality, and it is all supernatural.

Of course, clergy cannot talk about a further journey if they have not gone on it themselves.

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

Magdalene loved a very concrete Jesus who led her to a ubiquitous and Risen Christ. Paul started with a Universal Christ and grounded it all in a quite homely and lovable Jesus, who was rejected, crucified, and resurrected. Working together, Magdalene and Paul guide and direct the Christian experience in truly helpful ways toward both Jesus and Christ, but from opposite sides.

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.