The moral thing I should wish to say… is very simple. I should say: love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like.
We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn the kind of charity and the kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
~Bertrand Russell
how will I return from the dark night?
inquiry for today~ declare your own dark night so that you may dive deep…..
What has been an ancient spiritual truth is now increasingly verified by science: We are all indivisibly part of one another. We share a common ancestry with everyone and everything alive on earth. The air we breathe contains atoms that have passed through the lungs of ancestors long dead. Our bodies are composed of the same elements created deep inside the furnaces of long-dead stars.
We can look upon the face of anyone or anything around us and say—as a moral declaration and a spiritual, cosmological, and biological fact: You are a part of me I do not yet know.
~Richard Rohr
At One With All That Glory
One night many years ago in a world cloaked in a comforter of snow, I walked alone to the crest of a hill. As I stood there lost in perfect silence, the sky was bursting with stars I’d never seen. Suddenly, I felt my self shrinking into insignificance in that overwhelming spectacle of space. But softly, I melted into the universe, no longer limited by my borders, at one with all that Glory.
Eileen Norman Richard Rohr is a favorite of mine. Experiences of oneness with the universe challenge us to rethink our negative responses to anyone.
A beautiful soul moment Eileen. I believe because we can believe in each ohter.