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Kirtanman
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 Posted - Apr 23 2010 : 9:03:29 PM
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For any who may be wondering if the great contemplative Christian saints practice{d} yoga ........... (remembering, of course that the name of yoga stems not from the activity ..... but from the result .... yoga - union).
Christ filling the hearing, sight, touch, taste, and every sense
~Origen
Hanging by God’s thread of pure Love
~Catherine of Genoa
Seeing through exterior things, and seeing God in them
~Thomas Merton
A blind feeling of one’s own being, stretching unto God
~The Cloud of Unknowing
The pure, loving gaze that finds God everywhere
~Brother Lawrence
The mind’s loving, unmixed, permanent attention to the things of God
~Francis de Sales
Finding God in all things
~Ignatius of Loyola
A continual condition of prayerful sensitivity to what is really going on
~Douglas Steere
Seeing God in everything and everything in God with completely extraordinary clearness and delicacy
~Marie of the Incarnation
The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
~John of the Cross
Awareness, absorbed and amazed
~Teresa of Avila
The enlightening of the understanding, joined to the joys of God’s love
~Walter Hilton
Continual communion through all things by quite simply doing everything in the presence of the Holy Trinity
~Elizabeth of the Trinity
The mind, gazing upon the universe of God’s handiwork, rapt by the divine and infinite light
~Maximus the Confessor
The mind stolen from itself by the ineffable sweetness of the Word
~Bernard of Clairvaux
Divine wakefulness with pure and naked intuition
~Gregory of Nyssa
With the flash of one trembling glance, my mind arrived at THAT WHICH IS, but I could not fix my gaze thereon.
~Augustine
The alertness which finds everything plain and grasps it clearly with entire comprehension
~Hugh of St. Victor
Receiving the clarity of God without any means; a single nakedness that embraces all things
~ Jan Van Ruysbroek
Right understanding, with true longing, absolute trust, and sweet grace-giving mindfulness
~Julian of Norwich
Awakening to the presence of God in the human heart and in the universe which is around us... knowledge by love
~Dom Bede Griffiths
The world becoming luminous from within as one plunges breathlessly into human activity
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Source: http://www.metanoia.org/martha/writing/quotes.htm |
Edited by - Kirtanman on Apr 23 2010 10:20:35 PM |
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Quotes From Great Christian Yogis & Yoginis
