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It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, the radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.
Joanna Macy. www.azquotes.com
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
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.
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.
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.
