Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
Interpretation
The perspective of individuals shapes their reality, affecting how they interact with the world and others.
This quote by Richard Rohr emphasizes the idea that one's mindset significantly influences their perception of reality. Wholeness, representing unity and completeness, is perceived and fostered by those who feel whole within themselves, while those who feel fragmented often project their inner struggles onto their surroundings, creating division and discord in their interactions with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about teamwork, emphasizing unity, one might use this quote to encourage collective harmony.
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.
We are the creators and creatures of each other, _x000D_ causing and bearing each other's burden.
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.
A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
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