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Rohr's Meditation “The Freedom of Not Knowing” – Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy
Seventh Theme: Reality is paradoxical and
complementary. Non-dual thinking is the highest level of consciousness. Divine
union, not private perfection, is the goal of all religion (Goal).
“The Freedom of Not Knowing”
Meditation 32 of 52
Prayer is largely just being silent:
holding the tension instead of even talking it through, offering the moment
instead of fixing it by words and ideas, loving reality as it is instead of
understanding it fully. Prayer is commonly a willingness to say “I don’t know.”
We must not push the river, we must just trust that we are already in the
river, and God is the certain flow and current.
That may be impractical, but the way of
faith is not the way of efficiency. So much of life is just a matter of
listening and waiting, and enjoying the expansiveness that comes from such
willingness to hold. It is like carrying and growing a baby: women wait and
trust and hopefully eat good food, and the baby is born.(Adapted from
unpublished recording The Daily Meditations for 2013 are now available in Fr.
Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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