[T]he general dance of God, one with us in our brokenness...never ceases to stir within us, beating 'in our very blood whether we want it to or not.' -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, September 1, 2023
"The general dance of God" brings us to the concept of "impersonal love."
I came across a quote from William Law, an early English theologian, and I paraphrased a paragraph: By love, I do not mean any natural tenderness...but I mean a larger principle of the soul, founded in reason and [respect], which makes us...creatures of God and for his sake.
That is an apt description of impersonal love as the general dance of God.
Unknowingly, we are in...we live within...a state of impersonal love, or the fourth dimension to which we so earnestly aspire.
Having nothing but honorable intent, our bringing impersonal love to the reasoning mind in order to understand it devolves its spiritual nature. We bring it down to our level to understand it, but understanding with the material mind can only dismiss its own dimension.
It is "personalizing" love that sullies its character. Love personalized brings its opposite, fear in the form of hate, into our material world where dual thinking thrives in the general dance of God...beating 'in our very blood whether we want it to or not.'
We must go beyond reason to love. -- Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
Thank you.
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What we want and what we need are two "givens" in our life...bringing them together is the essence of our daily walk...with what we need always and forever coming out on top. Apparently it takes many lifetimes for us
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