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The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience, or devotional practice was that it must lead directly to practical compassion.
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself.
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)
We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao.
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (2004)