The Key to the Fourth Beatitude
Be connected with your most fundamental yearning. Visualize righteousness as a force field: an energy-charged sphere of holy presence…
Be connected with your most fundamental yearning. Visualize righteousness as a force field: an energy-charged sphere of holy presence…
It is the infinite calculus defining the line, plane, space, and fourth dimension of Spirit.
Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued.
Both my husband and I enjoyed this book by Richard Rohr, who is a Franciscan Priest much appreciated by contemporary protestants of all stripes. He is calling Christianity to re-examine business-as-usual which I think is a terribly good idea.
I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.
Success is not defined by the opinions of others, not measured by wealth, power, or fame…
“I care not what you believe; not one atom do I care; the one important thing for me to know is this – that you are entitled to…
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you’ve made
The present is ours; the future, big with events. Every man and woman should be to-day a law to himself, herself, — a law of loyalty to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount…
“Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life.
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens.
If you are reading this with internet connectivity on an electronic device, you are in a position to help. Please express your gratitude and compassion in action and in practical deed.
Hold close to your essential self. Get to know it, the way you get to know everything in the world about someone you’re in love with…
How insulting to the other beings–to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses–that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present in our world.