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| March 31, 2021 ? "Once in a while, you have to defend somebody, but it means youre always willing to suffer first for the cause that is to say, for communion with your enemies. If you overcome your enemies, youve failed. If you make your enemies your partners, God has succeeded."
Thomas Keating, Healing Our Violence Through the Journey of Centering Prayer, disc 5 (Franciscan Media: 2002), CD.
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| February 28, 2021 ? "Were synchronous beings, and contents of our minds spread from one of us to another easily and effortlessly, whether in person or online. Fear and love and hate are infectious and they spread over new media."
Hivemind: The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, PhD |
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| January 31, 2021 ? "In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now." - Wangari Maathai |
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| December 31, 2020? "At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge . . . in a field of energy. The pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence. There is no me and not me duality to our bodies in relation to the universe, but one underlying energy field." -Lynne McTaggart |
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| November 30, 2020? "Compassion changes everything ... heals ... mends the broken and restores what has been lost ... draws together those who have been estranged or never even dreamed they were connected ... pulls us out of ourselves and into the heart of another, placing us on holy ground ... Compassion springs out of vulnerability and triumphs in unity." - Judy Cannato |
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| October 31, 2020 ". . . the human person is a field of energy and information . . . interacting with the energy and information of others. None of us is a discreet, separate unit, but an integrated system of interactions and relationships connected to all." - Rupert Sheldrake
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| September 30, 2020? "There is no insignificant thought, word, or action. Each act of courage and strength shifts the energy and increases the potential for others to become aware, too. No matter what we do, we are always affecting the energy around us, in either a negative or positive way." - Judy Cannato |
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| August 31, 2020 "We tend to believe that most of us cannot and do not make much of a difference in the great scheme of things. The reality is that noticed or not, every conscious act that gives witness to new possibilities and greater awareness contributes to the transformation of the whole." - Judy Cannato |
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| July 31, 2020? "Change that leads to transformation is rarely ever top-down, but more often inside-out. Great movements have begun with single conscious acts that somehow sound a vibration that resonates in the whole ... that a single person can make an exceptional difference." - Judy Cannato |
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| June 30, 2020
"We have the resources of expanded consciousness and creativity that can be summoned to meet the needs of the day. We have at our disposal conscious awareness of the connectedness of all life and the opportunity for creative responses to do that." - Judy Cannato |
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| May 31, 2020
"Creating a field of kindness or care with intentionality produces an environment fecund with healing, allowing us to move . . . into the kind of refulgent living that is at the heart of what Jesus means when he says, 'I came that you might have life, and have it to the full.'" - Judy Cannato |
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| April 30, 2020
We are situated in a web of life ... the same evolutionary current moves through all a single self-transcending current of all-pervading energy ...
- Ilia Delio
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| March 31, 2020
"Compassion changes everything . . . heals . . . mends the broken and restores what has been lost . . . draws together those who have been estranged or never even dreamed they were connected . . . pulls us out of ourselves and into the heart of another, placing us on holy ground . . . Compassion springs out of vulnerability and triumphs in unity. " - Judy Cannato |
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| February 29, 2020
"We live within a Field of Compassion that rests on the conviction that we can become increasingly aware of who we are and how we influence our environment, and that we can and must make choices that are life-giving for all." - Judy Cannato |
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| January 31, 2020
. . . we can and must participate consciously in strengthening the . . . new consciousness that has emerged . . . filled with energy . . . Our past experiences have prepared us for its coming, and our conscious participation strengthens its energy. It is a field rooted in and characterized by love what we may call a Field of Compassion. - Judy Cannato |
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| December 31, 2019
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. -Thomas Merton |
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November 30, 2019
The new paradigm is one of communion where our union is created through the radiant energy of self-giving through generosity and mutuality. -Patricia Albere
(Communion is one of the three principles of the universe) -Thomas Berry |
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"Differentiation is one of the three principles of the universe." Thomas Barry
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September 30, 2019
We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. - Mary Oliver |
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August 31, 2019
The only thing that really converts people is "the face of the other. - Emmanuel Levinas |
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July 31, 2019
Attention is the doorway to wonder and gratitude. - Robin Well Kimmerer
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June 30, 2019
Differences can make things more comfortable. |
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| "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be filled with light." - Matthew 6:22
"It is all a matter of learning how to see, and it takes much of our life to learn to see well and truthfully." - Richard Rohr
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| "Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, 'Stay awhile.' The light flows from their branches." (Interiority is one of the three principles of the universe. Thomas Barry) |
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