The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend. - Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" of October 14, 2015
You are never angry for the reason that you think. - Anonymous (meaning I can't remember which of my many reads this comes from)
You must go beyond reason to love. - "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" by Thaddeus Golas
Those three ideas, if practiced faithfully, could change the world...according to me. I believe that because they continue to change me and thus my world.
I list them in reverse order of learning because they are so interconnected from bottom to top with room at the top for more to be added.
If I'd never connected with the necessity to go beyond reason to love, I couldn't have heard that I am never angry for the reason that I think which opened my mind to darkness as a gift, confirming that which I had come to believe.
The interconnecting link, of course, is that each requires our looking within, changing our mind, divorcing our self from our own opinions. In a nutshell, finding the other innocent...which, paradoxically, lets us walk free in our own head.
The interconnecting link, of course, is that each requires our looking within, changing our mind, divorcing our self from our own opinions. In a nutshell, finding the other innocent...which, paradoxically, lets us walk free in our own head.
Love extended is love returned tenfold...a hundredfold...unto infinity.
Thank you.
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