@caecilia1003 @holdengraber end/ "...a capacity for mutuality (see Matthew 7:7-11), which implies a basic humility...your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20)." @RichardRohrOFM @AgrarianSharing
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Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for expecting it? Can we talk to people decently and allow them to talk to us? First, we must face what smalless is. Joan Chittister
Sam Gamgee: "The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm.”’ Ultimately, I find, true planetary living is a constant exercise in the wonder, greatness and humility of smallness. Rising early, say, to labor ahead of the sun.
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Latif in the morning shadows.