Complete surrender doesn’t mean you don't have any desires at all. It means God’s desires are your desires, and you have no desires for your own. In this process, you break the duality every time you surrender.
Complete surrender doesn’t mean you don't have any desires at all. It means God’s desires are your desires, and you have no desires for your own. In this process, you break the duality every time you surrender.
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
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Richard Rohr |
os diferentes deuses são os respectivos egos mesquinhos construídos à sua própria medida e o mesmo “satan” é exactamente o mesmo mal e ignorância que os afecta a todos… Tenho dito! Muita paz 🙏
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To become a saint is not for some chosen people in the church, but to be a saint is a Universal call to everyone today. To be a saint is to manifest the love of God in our fellow beings. Wishing you an All Saints' Day full of divine prayers, and immense joy. ~Fr. Dorathick |
Fr. Dorathick |
O Mary,
except for God,
no one knows of your suffering.
Your soul does not break;
it is brave because it is with Jesus.
Sweet Mother, unite my soul to Jesus,
because it is only then
that I will be able to endure all trials
and tribulations,
and only in union with Jesus
will my little sacrifices
be pleasing to God.
Sweetest Mother,
continue to teach me about the inner life.
May the sword of suffering never break me.
O pure Virgin,
place courage into my heart and guard it.
Amen
Prayer for strength and courage |
God has chosen you and made you his holy people.
He loves you.
So your new life should be like this: Show mercy to others.
Be kind, humble, gentle, and patient.
(Colossians 3:12)
Whispers For The Soul |
and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God,
and God in them.
Assim conhecemos o amor que Deus tem por nós |
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
Bede Griffiths |
I’m a conditional atheist
God does not exist for me on
the tip of a sharpened sword
or on the lips of a sermonizing
hate-evangelist who is foaming at the mouth
or in the licking flames of a torch held
by a marching bigot
or in any dogma that have been soaked in the ancient poison of guilt and self-shame
the divine doesn’t
exist for me anywhere
where wounds are being
caused in its name
I don’t know about
how any of this works
but I’ve never found
much of God in the towering
hierarchy of unchecked power
the Great Mystery isn’t a cracking whip
or a flag or an internet manifesto
or a pointed finger or a political party
or a dividing line or a box of ammo
or a corvette driven by a tv preacher
or a specific gender or a book bonfire
Creation is more of a florist
than she is a fundamentalist
the Weaver of Life is more interested
in stitching us together into a quilt
than how to separate us into metal bins
to come into relationship
with Unending Love shouldn’t
require us to loathe ourselves
~ it should be the exact opposite
to know ourselves
is to know God
to love ourselves
is to love God
my love,
I believe that the divine
is just about everywhere
~ except in the slow-poison
sands of fear and control
where so many have built temples
for us to worship inside
~ in those places
I am an atheist
but everywhere else
there is so much
fertile soil
where we can let the sunflowers
of empathy grow wildly in
the spaces between us
and I’ve heard
that if we remain still
and listen so very closely
these evangelizing sunflowers
will whisper to each of us
a secret we once knew while we
were cooking in the cosmic womb:
“We are all loved equally.”
John Roedel |