Spirit

One thought from Ruth Ozeki

“Life is fleeting. Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”

Jesus (a good person) still had to die for the Christ (the universal presence) to arise. It is the pattern of transformation . . . What has to die is not usually bad; in fact, it will often feel good and necessary.2

Can you see the necessity of healthy and mature religion? Why else would you take the jump from a safe, comfortable sense of self into

Manic Screaming1

We should make all spiritual talk

Simple today:

God is trying to sell you something,

But you don’t want to buy.

That is what your suffering is:

Your fantastic haggling,

Your manic screaming over the price!

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1Daniel Ladinksy, I Heard God Laughing, Penguin Books, p. 13.

The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.

• Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond

Anything down right “good,” anything that shakes you with its “trueness,” and anything that sucks you into its beauty does not just educate you; it transforms you.

• Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond

God is never any object to be found or possessed as we find other objects, but the One who shares your own deepest subjectivity - or your ‘self’. We normally called it our soul. Religion called it ‘the Divine Indwelling.’

• Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond

The soul and the body have been designed to be a functioning team, much the way the conscious and subconscious mind function together. The body knows our oneness with everything because it feels it. The awakened heart longs to explore others, to nurture others, to experience our oneness with others, and this offers a clue to the truths that the hea

We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.

"Disease can manifest at four different levels: the physical (diarrhea, heart palpitations, facial tics, postural changes, etc.); the emotional (fantasies, illusions, destructive patterns of behavior, etc.); the mental (obsessions, compulsions, schizothymia, paranoia, etc.); and the spiritual (indolence, indifference, bitterness, accidie, loss of m