“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
Question for Meditation: What would the world be like if we treated separateness as an illusion?
Month: October 2021
“In Benedictine spirituality reverence for the other based on the spark of the divine that is in us all is a gift to be given to a century alive with distinctions it will not admit and an insight into the sacred, scarred and bleeding, that it does not see.”
Question for Meditation: Where do you see the spark of the divine?
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.”
Question for Meditation: Who has rekindled your light?
“Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union.”
Question for Meditation: What is one thing everyone works for?
“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. … I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.”
Question for Meditation: Are you what you ought to be? What does the community need from you?
“We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works. We should not stay away from our assembly, as is the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the more as you see the day drawing near.”
Question for Meditation: How do you encourage your community?
“Finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”
Question for Meditation: What can you find out about another today?
“You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things.”
Question for Meditation: What great things can we do together?
“O mankind! We…made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other).”
Question for Meditation: What do you know about those who are different from you?
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Question for Meditation: What do you call it? Why do you need one?
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