Healing
The great Borges thought it best to look upon our broken inner state as one of life’s great opportunities—to prove ourselves deserving of the blood pulsing through our veins. “Everything that happens,” he wrote, “including humiliations, misfortunes, embarrassments, all is given like clay,” so that we may “make from the miserable circumstances of ou... See more
“Put on the Diamonds”, by Vivian Gornick
we are existentially enveloped in magic, mystery, and love
Tao Lin • My Spiritual Evolution | Tao Lin | Granta
In Blessings for July, we transcribe the hopes encoded in the wing-beats of every new butterfly.
As we know, the hopes and dreams of butterflies radiate through the atmosphere from their light and fragile bodies, transforming the breath of all living beings. As you read these transcriptions, please flap your phone to br... See more
instagram.comThe mystery of forgiveness is God’s ultimate entry into powerlessness. Look at the times when we have withheld forgiveness. It’s often our final attempt to hold a claim over the one we won’t forgive. It’s the way we finally hold onto power or seek the moral high ground over another person: “I will hold you in unforgiveness, and you’re going to know... See more
Richard Rohr • Receiving God’s Mercy
The word meditation scares a lot of people. People always tell me “oh meditation isn’t for me, my mind just races too much” , and I say that’s exactly who meditation is for.
Meditation doesn’t mean to just sit there and all thoughts go away. Meditation isn’t just sitting in a certain position and being in bliss the who... See more
instagram.comThe “killer” signs:
Contempt. Doesn’t matter if you’re laughing as you jokingly put each other down. One day it won’t be funny.
Dismissiveness. “Ugh, she’s always like that”
Indifference. “nah it’s nbd whatever”
One partner constantly apologizing for the other. This is not sustainable.
This is bad form – when the hard times hit, they’ll buckle.
I find th... See more
Contempt. Doesn’t matter if you’re laughing as you jokingly put each other down. One day it won’t be funny.
Dismissiveness. “Ugh, she’s always like that”
Indifference. “nah it’s nbd whatever”
One partner constantly apologizing for the other. This is not sustainable.
This is bad form – when the hard times hit, they’ll buckle.
I find th... See more
Visakan Veerasamy • 👫 Relationships Are Challenging + a Lot of Work - @Visakanv's Blog
“My belief is that the two universal paths are great love and great suffering,” he told me. For much of his life, Rohr has used suffering as a spiritual tool to help him learn to be humble. “I pray for one humiliation a day,” he told me. “It doesn’t have to be major.”
Eliza Griswold • Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe
Will we run away from God’s vision or follow God’s call to embrace otherness, with all our ambivalence and anxiety, or will we baptize our prejudice and hatred in the waters of religious faith?
Just a moment...
