For if you do not see your soul, you see her in fellow men and this will drive you mad, since this devilish mystery and hellish spook can hardly be seen through.
(Çünkü ruhunu göremesen bile, onu diğer insanlarda görürsün ve bu seni çılgına çevirir; zira bu şeytani gizem ve cehennemvari hayaletin iç yüzünü anlamak neredeyse imkânsızdır.)
From the beginning of that brisk October, when 2,540 out of 2,908 eligible cardinals, patriarchs, bishops, and abbots arrived in Rome, it was apparent Vatican II would be a council unlike any other. The sheer weight of numbers showed that. There had been only six hundred to seven hundred fathers at the First Vatican Council, which proclaimed the infallibility of the pope in 1869–70. At the eighteen-year-long Council of Trent, which condemned the Protestant Reformation, only about two hundred members voted on the decrees. This time there were 230 fathers from a country that had been mission territory until 1908—the United States. The American group was second only to the Italian, which had 430 members. There were 230 Africans and more than 300 from Asia.
How shall I be released from this? -> How shall I not desire to be released?
By the twentieth century, more than two hundred denominations crowded the landscape in the United States alone. The force within Christianity was centrifugal—away from centralization—often independent, and sometimes divisive. In the twentieth century, however, another force, this one centripetal, drew Christians toward cooperation and united action. We call this force ecumenism.
What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?
"Kendine hizmet etmek ilahi bir hizmettir."Psikoloji
Through uniting with the self we reach the God, who unites heaven and hell in himself. The self is not God, although we reach the God through the self. The God has the power, not the self. Powerlessness should thus not be deplored, rather it is the condition that should abide.The God acts from within himself. This should be left to him. What we do to the self, we do to the God. If we twist the self, we also twist the God.
It is divine service to serve oneself.
(Kendilikle birleşme yoluyla Tanrı’ya ulaşırız; Tanrı, cennet ile cehennemi kendi içinde birleştirir. Kendilik Tanrı değildir; ancak Tanrı’ya kendilik aracılığıyla ulaşırız. Tanrı kudrete sahiptir, kendilik değil. Bu nedenle güçsüzlük hayıflanılacak bir durum değil, aksine sürdürülmesi gereken bir hâl olarak kabul edilmelidir. Tanrı kendi iradesiyle hareket eder. Bu iş O’na bırakılmalıdır. Benliğe yaptığımızı, Tanrı’ya da yapıyoruz. Benliği çarpıtırsak, Tanrı’yı da çarpıtmış oluruz.
Kişinin kendisine hizmet etmesi, ilahi bir hizmettir.)