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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation's Father Richard Rohr's Meditation "Love Everything" for Friday, 28 November 2014 - To be fully conscious would be to love everything on some level and in some way—even our mistakes.Love
Friday, 28 November 2014
To be fully conscious would be to love everything on some level and in some way—even our mistakes. To love is to fall into full consciousness, which is contemplative, non-dualistic, and including everything—even “the last enemy to be destroyed, which is death itself” (1 Corinthians 15:26). That is why we must, absolutely must, love! And why we must not be afraid of death.
Didn’t Jesus tell us that we must love even our enemies? When we can on some level even love our sins and imperfections, which are our “enemies,” we are fully conscious and fully liberated. God, who is Universal Consciousness itself, knows all things, absorbs all things, and forgives all things—for being what they are. If Jesus commands us to love our enemies, then we know that God must and will do the same. What hope and joy that gives us all! It takes away all fear of admitting our mistakes, and allows us to forgive our primary enemy which is often our self.
Let’s end this wonderful week with one of my favorite quotes from the Catholic Bible:
Yes, you love all that exists, you hold nothing of what you have made in abhorrence, for had you hated anything, you would not have formed it.
And how, had you not willed it, would a thing persist
in being?
How could it be conserved if not called forth by you?
You spare all things, because all things are yours, Lord, lover of life, you whose imperishable spirit is in all.[Wisdom 11:24-12:1]
Adapted from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, pages 91-92Gateway to Silence: Love is What Is.
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