“Divine Union takes place when we accept ourselves and our whole personal history just as we are, in total honesty, without anxiety or self recrimination. At the moment of utter powerlessness and, to us, the failure of everything the false self wanted to achieve, God joins us in our suffering and transforms it into our redemption for ourselves and for others.”
-Thomas Keating, “Towards Global Transformation” in Contemplative Outreach News (Spring/Summer 2003)
