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The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having “things.” It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things. A man can possess nothing, but attach great importance to the person
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“What we are looking for is what is looking.” —St Francis of Assisi
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
John D. Caputo: The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers: Volume 4: 2001–2004: Continental Philosophy of Religion
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daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…
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Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
ego (read “false self”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
The “adepts” in all religions are always forgiving, compassionate, and radically inclusive.
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr