A Quote by Thomas Keating

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Thomas Keating

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Thomas Keating
American - Priest
Born: March 7, 1923

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Dan Millman

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

Pope Francis

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

Brene Brown

Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect the hidden face of humanity, its creator, in the same sense that a computer can never become fully human or know what it means to be human: however sophisticated, these machines will forever remain mere artifacts of humanity.

Stephen A. Diamond

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

John Welwood

To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.

Sue Monk Kidd

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

Barbara Brown Taylor

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Rollo May

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Timothy Keller

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

John Dewey

Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

Pope Benedict XVI

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

Weston La Barre

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Pedro Arrupe

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.