3-3-2010 Reflection(Rohr)
(Posted: 10:02:08 03/03/2010)
Reflection (Richard Rohr)
March 3, 2010
(The following comes from Richard Rohr, is a Franciscan priest and an internationally known inspirational speaker known for his recorded talks and numerous books.)
What in us hampers real transformation?
Reflection (Richard Rohr)
March 3, 2010
(The following comes from Richard Rohr, is a Franciscan priest and an internationally known inspirational speaker known for his recorded talks and numerous books.)
What in us hampers real transformation?
If we are to see as God sees, we must first become mirrors, and receive things exactly as they are, without distorting them to our liking or disliking (see James 1:24-25).
We must become an empty no-thing so that we can receive some-thing. That is probably the only way that love is going to happen among humans, or there is never room for the other. To love demands a major transformation of consciousness, a transformation that has been the goal of all religious founders, saints, mystics and gurus since we began to talk about love. And the transformation of consciousness is this: we must be liberated from ourselves, and get ourselves out of the way—which is all God’s work.
We really need to be saved from the tyranny of our own judgments, opinions and feelings about everything; the “undisciplined squads of emotions” that T.S. Eliot criticizes in his poetry. If we do not detach in this way, and become clear open mirrors, I am afraid we do not really have authentic emotions at all. They have us.
~Richard Rohr
February 2010
February 2010