5 Paradoxes of the Soul - How Forgetting, Suffering, and Falling Apart Can Make You Whole

There are moments when we feel it—a sense of being a shard, a fragment of something larger we can’t quite recall. It’s a quiet trembling on the edge of awareness, a longing for a wholeness we feel we’ve lost. This deep, persistent feeling is what one text calls "the ache of remembrance"—the soul’s effort to return to what it once was before it was named, before it was broken into the pieces we now call "I." This ache is the central mystery explored in a profound and poetic collection of writings, The Memory of God , a text that blends the deep currents of mysticism with the intricate language of psychology. It doesn't offer easy answers or simple comforts. Instead, it presents a series of startling paradoxes that challenge our most fundamental assumptions about life, consciousness, and the divine. This post will explore five of the most surprising and counter-intuitive takeaways from this text. These ideas reframe our understanding of life's biggest challeng...

Self-love as love for God

In the first place is Love for God, this is what is meant by self-love. In the second place and on equal principles - love for God in the other and God in oneself, and in the third place - love, understanding and compassion for one's personality and the personality of the other, in the form of respect and understanding and tolerating the speed with which the Truth is seen - the speed with which the illusory layers of the personality are stripped away, the speed with which the ego is polished and vices and old karmic programs are cleared, the speed with which virtues are acquired.

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