Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. – Saint Augustine

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. – Saint Augustine

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I dont have to have faith, I have experience. – Joseph Campbell

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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. – Frank McCourt

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It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. – Albert Einstein

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