Weekly Pause & Ponder

Meher Baba, the Avatar says: Love has to spring spontaneously from within, it is in no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never to together. True love is unconquerable and irresistible. It goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everything it touches. Humanity will attain a new mode of being and life through the free unhampered interplay of pure love from heart to heart.

The Conscious Activist: Where Activism Meets Mysticism by James O’Dea p. 226.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Love comes out of God and gathers us to God in order to pour itself back into God through all of us and bring us all back to Him on the tide of His own infinite mercy. So we all become doors and windows through which God shines back into His own house.

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton p.67.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Go tell the story of human possibility. Tell the story of our capacity to change all that has been dominated by extremely limited consciousness. We are the Imago Dei. We are godseeds. The present imperative is precisely what we need to rouse and awaken our capacities. We are the people of the breakthrough.

The Conscious Activist by Jean Houston.  P.112.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

We are called to be whole-makers, to evolve by uniting, growing and becoming more complex.  We are not to seek the living among the dead. Rather, we are to forge a new future, a new hope, a new life that begins with our own lives.

The Emergent Christ by Ilia Delio, p.150

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Love calls for transformation, not change alone, for that can be temporary.  Even God continues to be transformed inviting us into newer and greater perceptions of who God is and what is required of us as believers.

The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, by Ilia Delio. p. 197