3 Quotes & Sayings By David C Downing

David C. Downing is an accomplished speaker and writer, having written numerous articles and books on the subjects of counseling, personal growth, leadership development, counseling psychology, and organizational development. He is also a published author of fiction, including the Christian thriller series The Family Legacy. He has served as president of the American Counseling Association (1994–95), director of counseling education at Western Governors University (1999-2003), and director of counseling training at several universities.

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As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached. David C. Downing
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Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being. David C. Downing