Weekly Pause & Ponder

One can only imagine how greatly the political and religious culture wars of our era could be eased by this simple courtesy of the Law of Three: (1) the enemy is never the problem but the opportunity; (2) the problem will never be solved through eliminating or silencing the opposition but only through creating a new field of possibility large enough to hold the tension of the opposites and launch them in a new direction. Imagine what a different world it would be if these two simple precepts were internalized and enacted.

Cynthia Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the radical
Truth at the Heart of Christianity.  www.goodreads.com

Weekly Pause & Ponder

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers nor global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. 

Barbara Marx Hubbard.  www.azquotes.com

Weekly Pause & Ponder

We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about “everything that is,” for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a “planetary agenda” for all religions, all the various fields of expertise.

Sallie McFague.  www.azquote.com

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The reason human civilization is tired, depressed, unimaginative in dealing with unemployment, pollution, youth despair, injustice and inequality is that we “do not even know who we are,” as Hildegard put it.  We are out of touch with our “true selves” as Alice Miller puts it. A civilization that denies the mystic is not civilization at all. It offers no hope and no adventure, no challenge worthy of sacrifice and joy to its youth or its artists…. It encourages us to seek outside stimulants to provide meaning for life and defense from enemies because it is woefully out of touch with the power inside.

The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by Matthew Fox, p.43.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage the community is to diminish our own existence.

Thomas Berry.  www.azquotes.com