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« Certainly, I did not choose my existence, nor my body for that matter. I have not totally decided to love Corine or my children, but I can choose to be tender with them, to dare a "agree" »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher |
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The Naked Philosopher
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« For the Christian, prayer comes first and foremost from a meeting. An encounter with Christ, with Jesus. And what I like about Jesus' journey, if I dare say, if one looks at his life on a human view, is that there is failure, except for his total adherence to life. The cross, for me, is the zero degree of hope. Jesus missed everything at the time of the cross. Everything failed. Yet for the believer, for the Christian, this is where life begins. She gains ground, or rather, she wins at the same time as she loses. It is the zero degree of human life, there is no more hope, and yet this zero degree becomes the place of salvation. Often, in prayer, I think of that. When I'm really in desolation, when there's nothing left to do, I dare to give up altogether." p.67 »
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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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« Tonight, one thing is certain: passion plays me with sacred tricks and I want to progress to a little detachment, this distant land to which I aspire. For passions are my own, and the soul. E when they hold me, I can say: "Goodbye prudence!" Anger, sadness, fear, envy, jealousy, nothing that is human is foreign to me. »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Naked Philosopher |
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The Naked Philosopher
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