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.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.
When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.
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