Top 4 Quotes by Martin Laird

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

Martin Laird

Life And Love, Wind, Trying

Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.61, Oxford University Press

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

Martin Laird

Taken, Humanity, Bruises

Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

Martin Laird

Letting Go, Reality, Land

Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.10, Oxford University Press