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The Third Way

8/28/2018

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“The contemplative stance is the Third Way. We stand in the middle, neither taking the world on from the power position nor denying it for fear of the pain it will bring. We hold the realization, seeing the dark side of reality and the pain of the world, but we hold it until it transforms us, knowing that we are complicit in the evil and also complicit in the holiness. Once we can stand in that third spacious way, neither fighting nor fleeing, we are in the place of grace out of which newness comes. Creativity comes from here, and we can finally do a new thing for the world. When our ego stops getting hooked, when it’s not our agenda, then we can hope ours is the agenda of God. We can stop building our kingdom and become usable in the kingdom of God.”

​— Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
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Driven or Drawn

8/5/2018

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The essence of contemplative vision & practice is a willingness to be drawn.

This is rooted in an awareness that most of our thoughts and actions are driven by unconscious forces of enculturation and shame. And the confident hope that there is within each of us eyes that can see, ears that can hear and respond to the divine lure towards life, abundance, and finally Shalom for all.

​So contemplative practice in its many forms is essentially a refusal to be driven, so that we might be drawn.

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