If we want sustainable communities, we must always welcome the 'other' and learn to see our neighbor as ourselves. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," April 22, 2016
Please read Rohr's quote again, and substitute "to be happy, joyous and free" for "sustainable communities." There. We're now heading in the right direction, up the right road toward peace.
The right road toward that peace is accepting that a sustainable community is necessary to our own life, and for that we are responsible. We cannot get there without welcoming the "other," and especially the one to whom we are most resistant...the one we identify as the primary cause of our psychic pain. Psychic pain is nearly always somebody else's fault according to my ego Lucy.
The hard lesson learning is that feeling happy, joyous and free is personal. It does not come easy. It is always, always, always entirely 100% up to us personally to achieve. And it is achievable in the midst of unrest, of turmoil, of chaos.
It is achievable by taking happy, joyous and free personally. It is achievable by not taking unrest, turmoil and chaos personally.
A flower falls even though we love it; and a weed grows even though we do not love it. -- Dogen Zenji
Thank you.
Thank you.
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