Hevajra Mandala (detail) by Wonderlane
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Wholeness"
"Wholeness Holds You"
Friday, 14 November 2014
Psychological wholeness and spiritual holiness never exclude the problem from the solution. Wholeness doesn’t really overcome the problem, but holds it and transforms it as Jesus did on the cross. As Carl Jung said, most of the great problems of life are never resolved. They’re just outgrown.
Wholeness holds you. You can’t figure this out ahead of time or fully choose this wholeness; you fall into it when you stop excluding. And you are changed in the process. Everything belongs, even the “bad” and dark parts of yourself. Nothing need be rejected or denied. No one need be hated. No one need be excommunicated, shunned, or eliminated. You don’t have time for that anymore. You’ve entered into the soul of the serene disciple where, because the Holy One has become one in you, you are able to see that oneness everywhere else. Almost like magic!
In Thomas Merton’s words, “A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite—are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.”
Adapted from Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey, disc 5 (CD, MP3 download); and Franciscan Mysticism: I AM That Which I Am Seeking, disc 1
(CD, MP3 download); and Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, page 56
Gateway to Silence: Wholeness holds you.
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Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Wholeness"
"Wholeness Holds You"
Friday, 14 November 2014
Psychological wholeness and spiritual holiness never exclude the problem from the solution. Wholeness doesn’t really overcome the problem, but holds it and transforms it as Jesus did on the cross. As Carl Jung said, most of the great problems of life are never resolved. They’re just outgrown.
Wholeness holds you. You can’t figure this out ahead of time or fully choose this wholeness; you fall into it when you stop excluding. And you are changed in the process. Everything belongs, even the “bad” and dark parts of yourself. Nothing need be rejected or denied. No one need be hated. No one need be excommunicated, shunned, or eliminated. You don’t have time for that anymore. You’ve entered into the soul of the serene disciple where, because the Holy One has become one in you, you are able to see that oneness everywhere else. Almost like magic!
In Thomas Merton’s words, “A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite—are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.”
Adapted from Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey, disc 5 (CD, MP3 download); and Franciscan Mysticism: I AM That Which I Am Seeking, disc 1
(CD, MP3 download); and Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, page 56
Gateway to Silence: Wholeness holds you.
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