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Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - To have blessings and to prize them is to be in heaven
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002444
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Thomas Traherne – Centuries of Meditations
To have blessings and to prize them is to be in heaven; to have them and not to prize them, is to be in hell; I would say upon earth. To prize them and not to have them, is to be in hell. Which is evident by the effects. To prize blessings while we have them is to enjoy them, and the effect thereof is content, pleasure, thanksgiving, happiness. To prize them when they are gone produces envy, covetousness, repining, ingratitude, vexation, misery. But it was no great mistake to say, that to have blessings, and not to prize them is to be in hell
The source of the experience
Traherne, ThomasConcepts, symbols and science items
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HellScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldCommuning with nature
Inherited genes
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am