My journey today seems to be that path between still more material knowledge and still more spiritual growth. It's kinda like walking the razor's edge...seeking to learn, to get clear of, the childhood cause of my PTSD and seeking to unlearn my material hooks and balances.
For some time now, my spiritual journey has been about unknowing, or detaching from my intellectual need to figure it out. The path has ever led to my spiritual need to detach...release...let go.
I am particularly comforted that Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today quotes the author of The Cloud of Unknowing as always saying you’ve got to balance your knowing with a willingness not to know.
Further, The author of The Cloud teaches...we must go into the Cloud, where we actually don’t need to label anymore; we don’t need to know that we know. I think the biblical word for that–and hear it now in a whole new way—is faith.
Balance is the key...to balance our knowing with a willingness not to know.
I am convinced...or mightily suspect...that infinitesimal space in balancing, that space between knowing and unknowing, is where the God of my understanding lives. There is no material mind way to get there. It is unknowing, and in faith we awaken there.
The un part. The essential part. God is in the un.
Thank you.
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