Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

What comes first in this world …is not “being” but “the union which produces this being.”… Reality is woven through layers of bondedness.  Cosmic life is intrinsically relational. Nothing is itself taken alone. Reality is “being with another,” in a way open to more union and more being I exist in order that I may give of myself, for it is in giving that I am myself. Cosmic life is intrinsically communal. Being is first a “we” before it can become an “I”….The universe is thoroughly relational and in the framework of love.

The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio, p.45

 

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Evolutionary spirituality, though it comes in many colors, has a message much more suited for the life conditions of the modern and postmodern world: the evolution of this world is the goal of spiritual life. And by “world” I mean the manifest cosmos of time and space, both the interior and exterior realms – consciousness, culture, and cosmos. The action is here – in this time, in this place, in the possibilities that lie in the near and distant future of this culture, this world, this universe. Yes, there still may be spiritual transcendence of the most radical, sublime, and subtle forms, but transcendence is in the service of evolution, not the other way around.  And the difference is everything.

Evolutionaries by Carter Phipps

Weekly Pause & Ponder

It is love itself that brings all of us together. This human family we are part of, this singular voice that is the accumulation of all voices raised together in praise of all Creation, this one heartbeat, this one drum, this one immaculate love that put us here together so that we could learn its primary teaching – that love is the energy of Creation, that is takes love to create love.

Embers by Richard Wagamese, p. 46