Pema Chödrön “The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. However it’s not so easy to take a straight look at what we do. Seeing ourselves clearly is initially uncomfortable and embarrassing. As we train in clarity and steadfastness, we see things we’d prefer to deny—judgmentalness, pettiness, arrogance. These are not sins but temporary and …
Dylan Morrison ‘Take your seat on the Spirit throne within and watch in Silence as the raging seas of thoughts and emotions try to drown your true identity. Oneness with the Son and Oneness with Father/Mother Source is your gracious birthright. Through the Divine eyes, merely take note of the swirling tantrums of your self-built …
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I don’t know how it will be for you. For me,when the news came–when it sat me downacross from me in thewaiting roomat 4 a.m.wearing scrubs andspeaking words awfuland full ofstrangeness–it came witha humming inmy head, an endless, echoing buzzingthat would neverentirely leave. I can hardly tell youthe words the news used–others would piece that …
The Courage of Ali “I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no …
“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 …
