I Had Made Myself The

Obedience Is Detachment From The Self. This Is The Most Radical Detachment Of All. But What Is The Self? The Self Is The Principle Of Reason And Responsibility In Us. It Is The Root Of Freedom, It Is What Makes Us Men.

...the Need To Overawe People And Demand Obedience From Them Is Powerful And Seductive. It Is A Part Of That World That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Not Of.

God Had Brought Me To My Knees And Made Me Acknowledge My Own Nothingness, And Out Of That Knowledge I Had Been Reborn. I Was No Longer The Centre Of My Life And Therefore I Could See God In Everything.

God Has Graced Every Tradition With Insight Into The Divine Mystery, From The Most Primitive To The Most Sophisticated-each Has A Gift To Bring To The World.

I Suddenly Saw That All The Time It Was Not I Who Had Been Seeking God, But God Who Had Been Seeking Me. I Had Made Myself The Centre Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.