We are reading What The Mystics Know: Seven Pathways To Your Deeper Self by Richard Rohr. This week, we are reading Part 2. Please read through page 45. We may take more than one week on this section.
The questions this week:
- page 29 As you struggle on your life path, where are you in learning to both receive and grant universal forgiveness?
- 30 “Missing the mark,” “separation from God,” “fixations that prevent the energy of life, God’s love, from flowing freely.” How do you view sin?
- 32-33 “Our gift is our sin.” Explain. How do we overcome our passions and learn to perceive reality more objectively?
- 33 “The problem is precisely in the need to be right and the need to think of myself as right.” How does this block us from being able to allow love to flow?
- 34 How does binary thinking block us from rush to judgment and spiritual seeing?
- 35-36 Do manifestations of piety, in yourself and in others, block you from spiritual seeking?
- 37 What is excess? What is enough? What is sufficient?
- 39 Contemporary dilemma: 1) Our culture no longer values the inner journey; 2) We actively avoid and fear it; 3) Many no longer have tools to go inward because 4) we are enamored of and entrapped in the private ego and its private edges.” How long can the center hold?
- 41 How does one go about letting go of the ego self and finding the “no one?”
- 42 What are the 3 demons in our personal wilderness?
- 44 Why must we love both sides? How can this happen?
- 45 What are your steps in taking joy in imperfection?
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