OUR REASONING MIND CANNOT GET US THERE

QUOTES FROM ELSEWHERE:

When it is obvious that a goal cannot be achieved,  don't adjust the goal, adjust the action steps.

-- Confucius

It is always your next move. - Napoleon Hill


@7/10/16     As Carl Jung writes, "the greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown."

@7/9/16   Jesus is the victim in an entirely new way because he receives our hatred and does not return it, nor does he play the victim for his own empowerment.

@7/7/16  We have to allow ourselves to be drawn out of "business as usual" and remain patiently on the "threshold" (limen, in Latin) where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That's a good space where genuine newness can begin. Get there often and stay as long as you can by whatever means possible. It's the realm where God can best get at us because our false certitudes are finally out of the way. This is the sacred space where the old world is able to fall apart, and a bigger world is revealed. If we don't encounter liminal space in our lives, we start idealizing normalcy.
@7/6/16 For Bonaventure, the perfection of God and God's creation is quite simply a full circle, and to be perfect, the circle must and will complete itself.


@7/5/16  NOTE; THIS I READ JUST AFTER MY DEEP QT ON MY R,R,R, BEING MY GOLD:
But if you do choose to walk through the depths--even the depths of  your own sin and mistakes--you will come out the other side, knowing you've been taken there by a Source larger than yourself.
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If we are to speak of miracles, the most miraculous thing of all is that God uses the very thing that would normally destroy you--the tragic, the sorrowful, the painful, the unjust--to transform and enlighten you.


@7/3/16  Spirituality is always eventually about what you do with your pain. It seems our culture has lost its own spiritual foundation and center, and as a result we no longer know what to do with universal pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit it--to our partner, our spouse, our children, our friends, our coworkers, our "enemies." Usually we project it outward and blame someone else for causing our pain.