When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
Interpretation
Understanding your identity helps clarify your purpose in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in guiding our decisions and actions. When we have a clear understanding of who we are and our values, the choices we need to make about our lives often become more apparent and manageable.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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