“It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master’s message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)”
Julia Cameron
God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path
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