Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wisdom from Richard Rohr

Richard's Daily Meditations
I receive daily prayers and thoughts from Richard Rohr, a catholic priest that is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I really love what he has to say most days but today was great!


THE GIFT OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

Question of the Day:
Whose life am I living?

Spirituality is about seeing. It’s not about earning or achieving. It’s about relationship rather than results or requirements.

Once you see correctly, the rest follows. Mary Oliver, the poet, puts it so well. It is like “seeing through a veil, secretly, joyfully clearly!”

You don’t need to push the river, because you are in it. The life is lived within us, and we learn how to say yes to that life.

If we exist on a level where we can see how “everything belongs,” we can trust the flow and trust the life, The Life so large and deep and spacious that it even includes its opposite, death.

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