We absolutely need conflicts, moral failures, defeats to our grandiosity, even seeming enemies. These are necessary mirrors, or we will have no way to ever spot our shadow self. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditations, November 24, 2021
It feels like grace that this “trance of unworthiness” led me onto a spiritual path - Tara Brach
Without sin and the fear of sin; without conflicts and moral failures and the fear of same; without the “trance of unworthiness” and the fear of that trance, churches and the like would be out of business.
As we have experienced, nothing turns us to God faster than fear...and there we were praying God remove fear from our emotional repertoire.
All our fears may be in business just to turn us from our egoic objectives in order for us to seek a better way...the divinity of gratitude.
'The soul’s journey into God,' as Bonaventure put it, was to learn how to see the unity of all being, how to look for this partially hidden God, and how to honor those footprints everywhere once they were seen. It was a surrender to gratitude. -- Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, June 11, 2023
Thank you.
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