@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM "What we are able to see and are predisposed to see in the outer world is a reflection of our own inner world and state of consciousness at that time. We project ourselves onto outer things and these very things also reflect back to us our own unfolding identity." @RichardRohrOFM
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In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth. - Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouvé
@SophiaCycles @RichardRohrOFM: "I am afraid that the closer you get to the Light, the more of your shadow you see. Thus truly holy people are *always* humble people."
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Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which his in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet