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Spiritual desire is the experience of God’s presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.

By Ilia Delio
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Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion. Her interests include evolution, physics, and neuroscience and how these fields relate to theology.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAvoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail.

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Elizabeth Lesser
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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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C. S. Lewis
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