"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Monday, July 8, 2019

The contrmplative mind is a different mind that does not read the moment in terms of us and them, right or wrong, black or white, gay or straight, catholic or protestant. It  just,  "It  Is". You can see what detachment from your own ego that necessitates. Let each moment be what it is without pigeonholing it. Without putting in in some catorgory, up or down, in or out, with me or agaianst me. If we don't learn this.....  nothing will change..... Even our church; utterly divided between liberals and conservatives. Both convinced that the other has nothing to tell them, which is NEVER true. And, of course, the contemplative mind is the only one who can know that becuse they do not divide the field of the moment."

- Richard Rohr
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