The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell. www.brainyquote.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Redemption means overcoming all forms of patriarchy …. Suffering is a factor in the liberation process, not as a means of redemption, but as the risk that one takes when one struggles to overcome unjust systems whose beneficiaries resist change. The means of redemption is conversion, opening up to one another, changing systems of distorted relations, creating loving and life-giving communities of people here and now…
Rosemary Radford Reuther. Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
We must regain the conviction that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty…. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of genuine culture and care of the environment.
Pope Francis. Laudate Si, ’229. www.ncronline.org. June 17, 2017.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Jesus’ strategy was based on an egalitarian sharing of spiritual and material power at the most grassroots level …. Here, I think, is the heart of the original Jesus movement.
John Dominic Crossan. Quoted from Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
You are a miracle of evolution, a biological organism delicate and fragile and yet tenacious because you have survived throughout eons of cosmic cycles. You are what you are because the universe is what it is. The universe is what it is because you are what you are. The body you inhabit may seem to be your personal possession, but in truth it belongs to the universe.
Deepak Chopra. Power, Freedom and Grace.