Spirit
by tryllid · updated 1mo ago
Spirit
- “The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego–your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanim... See more
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More a Verb Than a Noun
The resolution comes in the Trinity, the outpouring of love in one direction. This is the Mystery of God who is always beyond any concept we can imagine. The mind cannot capture the Trinity, for the Divine can only be known in relationship. God is relationship itself: "Christians believe that God is formlessness (the Father),
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Father Richard Rohr describes the “eagerness to love” that characterized the life and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226):
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis of Assisi succeeded in living in a single-hearted way, in which his only goal was to love. This intense eagerness to love made his whole
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If we all carry a little of the burden, it will be lightened. If we share in the suffering of the world, then some will not have to endure so heavy an affliction. It evens out.
— Dorothy Day in Dorothy Day: Selected Writings by Robert Ellsberg, Dorothy Day
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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!”
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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