Many times I’ve watched, for instance, as a person with Down syndrome stands with a gold medal around her neck, arms raised high to a cheering crowd. I can’t look at that child, at that human being, without slipping out of dualistic thinking. Those moments are a kind of sacrament of unitive consciousness. They are 'both-and' moments where shadow and light coexist in the same experience. -- Tim Shriver, Chair of Special Olympics, from Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," November 16, 2017
I do wonder, is it possible for me, for you, for Joe and Jo Doaks to experience just what Shriver is talking about only for us to experience it in the meeting of our adversary. To know, to realize, to experience "a kind of sacrament of unitive consciousness...both-and moments where shadow and light coexist in the same experience."
I suspect that is what needs to happen within us if we are ever to spiritually "agree with our adversary quickly."
We know the right words, but doing them, other than by rote, ah, there's the high road we seek. Our lips can agree through sheer self-will, but if our thoughts are on the attack then, who's kidding whom, our ego is on parade, high-stepping, flaunting its power...in control.
It is the "slipping out of dualistic thinking" that is the Way...there is no peace of mind and attack mind in unitive consciousness. And self-will cannot get us there. God can and will if sought. And daily.
Thank you.
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