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“To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.16, Harper Collins
#Grace Quotes
#Needs Quotes
#Alive Quotes
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“Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.”
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Gerald May
#Real Quotes
#Silence Quotes
#Telling The Truth Quotes
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“When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.”
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Gerald May
#Running Quotes
#Dream Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.”
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Gerald May
#Hurt Quotes
#Pain Quotes
#Grief Quotes
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“In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (1977). “Simply Sane: Stop Fixing Yourself and Start Really Living”
#Love Is Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.”
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Gerald May
#Mistake Quotes
#Extravagance Quotes
#Thousand Quotes
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“Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (1988). “Addiction and Grace”, Harper San Francisco
#Honesty Quotes
#Risk Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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“Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.”
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Gerald May
#Peace Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Ocean Quotes
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“True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.”
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Gerald May
#Growth Quotes
#Causes Quotes
#Process Quotes
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“Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.”
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Gerald May
#Blessing Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
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“Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.”
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Gerald May
#May Quotes
#Eliminating Quotes
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“Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Zondervan
#Heart Quotes
#Love Life Quotes
#May Quotes
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“Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions”, p.10, Harper Collins
#Addiction Quotes
#Care Quotes
#Masters Quotes
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“To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.”
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Gerald May
#Beautiful Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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“The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (1977). “Simply Sane: Stop Fixing Yourself and Start Really Living”
#Attitude Quotes
#Work Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.”
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Gerald May
Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins
#Yield Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Mastery Quotes
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“Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness.... The realization of love always remains mysterious.”
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Gerald May
#Love Quotes
#Kindness Quotes
#Forever Quotes
