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« (p. 65) For me, prayer is about presenting yourself naked to God, without expectations. Prayer is often seen as a request. (...) But since I read the Diamond Soutra, it seems to me that prayer is not prayer, which is why I call it prayer. Prayer is not: "Give me this." Because when we say, "Give me this," we cut ourselves off from everything, we fix ourselves, we limit ourselves to a result. If God exists, he will not give a turnkey answer to our prayer. (...) To be without waiting. Let yourself be opened... »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« We live in society. We live thanks to each other, through encounters. Without the encounters that made me and defeated me, I would not be in this world. To meet the other is to rest a little of oneself. The greatest suffering is that which we fall back on ourselves. The one that closes us in on our little self. And it ends up feeling musty in there! to meet the other is to get out of the roles we play. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« Do not believe that the one who tries to comfort you lives effortlessly among the simple and serene words that sometimes do you good. His life is so sad and sad that leave him far behind. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Man's profession: Tracking 'Spiritual Practice' |
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Alexandre Jollien
Man's profession: Tracking 'Spiritual Practice'
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