“People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree […]
Fr. Richard Rohr on the 12 Steps of AA… Spirituality and the Twelve Steps(Part One)Sweet SurrenderTuesday, June 17, 2014We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. – Step Three of the Twelve Steps Jesus’ version of Step Three is, “If anyone wants
There are a thousand things which prevent a man from awakening, which keep him in the power of his dreams. Real change, in the sense of awakening to a new consciousness, is the great goal of this work, but the shortest and especially the safest way to this goal is the seeming detour via self-observation.
Richard Rohr on the Transformative gift of the Enneagram: The purpose of the Enneagram is not self-improvement, which would be our ego’s goal. Rather, it is the transformation of consciousness so that we can realize our essence, our True Self. Personality development and character building will happen on the side as a corollary, but this
PowerlessnessSunday, June 15, 2014We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. – Step One of the Twelve Steps I am convinced that the spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous, as it was first called, is going to go down as the significant and authentic American contribution to the history of spirituality. With inspiration
The idiots Gurdjieff didn’t teach the enneagram of personality. He taught a progression of 21 ascending guys whom he called “idiots” but not in the usual sense of the word. Extended date and link follows here:“There are 21 different idiots with Gurdjieff being number 18; 19 and 20 are Sacred Individuals serving throughout the Megalocosm;
G.I. Gurdjieff on developing will and the importance of having proper respect for your Father. Gurdjieff: You must have an aim, a serious aim. And you must establish a relationship between your task and your aim, an aim you cannot forget. Your task concerns your aim and brings you to your aim. The first day
