Center for Action and Contemplation – Father
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation – Sunday, 29 December 2013 “Only Love Can
Handle the Truth”
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).
“Only Love Can Handle the Truth”
Meditation 51 of 52
The contemplative mind does not need to prove
anything or disprove anything. It’s what the Benedictines called a Lectio
Divina, a reading of the Scripture that looks for wisdom instead of quick
answers. It first says, “What does this text ask of me? How can I change because
of this story?” And not “How can I use this to prove that I am right and others
are wrong or sinful?”
The contemplative mind is willing to hear from
a beginner’s mind, yet also learn from Scripture, Tradition—and others. It has
the humility to move toward Yes/And thinking and not all-or-nothing thinking.
It leads to a “Third Way,” which is neither fight nor flight, but standing in
between—where I can hold what I do know together with what I don’t know.
Holding such a creative tension with humility and patience leads us to wisdom
instead of easy answers which largely create opinionated and smug people
instead of wise people. We surely need wise people now, who hold their truth
humbly and patiently.(Adapted from the webcast What is the Emerging Church?
(CD, DVD, MP3 download)--The Daily Meditations
for 2013 are now available
in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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