Tuesday, January 19, 2021

it's compassion









In contemplative practice, you refuse to identify with any one side, 
while still maintaining your intelligence.  
 
You hold the creative tension of every seeming conflict and 
go beyond words to pure, open-ended experience, 
which has the potential to unify many seeming contradictions.
 
 Notice how wordy political and academic discourse is, 
and how quiet monks and hermits are.

It really is a different way of knowing,
 and you can tell it by its gratuity,
 its open-endedness, its compassion...
 
 



Fr. Richard Rohr
photo: Dr. and Mrs. King singing in the rain on a march 1965
by Moneta Sleet Jr.


 
 
 

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