Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
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The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
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Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
Tags: spirituality, source, seeking, questioning, answers
The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
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The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
Tags: spirituality, religion, practice
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)
— Jean-Yves Leloup Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
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