Reminders for myself
In a long-term relationship, if you can’t trust your partner… what are you doing? You’re very possibly wasting your time. Or your standards are so low that you’re willing to tolerate an untrustworthy partner because you’re scared of being alone.
Visakan Veerasamy • 👫 Relationships Are Challenging + a Lot of Work - @Visakanv's Blog
My capacity to live a contemplative way of life was inscribed in my very being as a person created in the image and likeness of God.
James Finley • Cultivating a Contemplative Culture Within
I promise you don't want personal sovereignty you want to be inextricably entangled in a mesh of mutual obligations
Richard D. Bartlettx.comWe do not attain anything by our own holiness but by ten thousand surrenders to mercy. A lifetime of received forgiveness allows us to become mercy. Mercy becomes our energy, our meaning. Perhaps we are finally enlightened and free when we can both receive mercy and give it away—without payment or punishment.
Richard Rohr • Receiving God’s Mercy
Nature is the first Scripture and the Bible is the second. If we can’t be in right relation with the first, we will never be in right relation with the second.
Nathan Bettger • Nature is the First Scripture
Forgive Everyone Everything
Forgive Everyone Everything
Forever – is composed of Nows – 690 | The Poetry Foundation
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“When word and silence are separated, the driveshaft grinds to a halt, and this deepening process is suspended. Severed from its nurturing ground in contemplative silence, word tends to become unduly analytical, linear, and dialectical. A vicious circle is set in motion. The farther one strays from the wellsprings of spiritual awareness and the
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