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Quotes About Self-loss

Alone All-One Alone with God All-One with God Being alone with God Being all-one with God…… It is a terrible grace. An awesome gift, but terrifying all the same. There is no way to get there except to lose yourself, to lose what you know of yourself. And the the battle is over. There will be nothing left but God…………. Now I understand why Jesus went out to the desert hills so often alone…
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by "its" regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Ba?thist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
~ Kanan Makiya
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich