The following is from Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," of October 27, 1015:
"'The nonviolent resister is willing to accept violence if necessary, but never to inflict it,' The Rev. King writes. 'Generously endured suffering for the sake of the other has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.' Almost more than anything else! It is not that suffering of itself is 'good.' It is just that one's newfound intimacy with life, with others, and with God is usually attained in no other way. "
"'The nonviolent resister is willing to accept violence if necessary, but never to inflict it,' The Rev. King writes. 'Generously endured suffering for the sake of the other has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.' Almost more than anything else! It is not that suffering of itself is 'good.' It is just that one's newfound intimacy with life, with others, and with God is usually attained in no other way. "
Nonviolent resistance goes beyond the reasoning mind's capacity to comprehend. That's why we must needs seek for an open mind...open to impersonal love. Impersonal love passes all understanding. It attaches itself to nothing. It is within/without all...everything, everybody, every molecule and amoeba.
Impersonal love is not ours, it is cosmic...of God, always available but we know it not until it is loosed from us and flows forth. Then we know: This is unselfed.
Thank you.
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