@lukeburgis Social positioning, moral categories and virtue? Once, sharing with a homeless man, I said 'the good people'. "Oh," he replied. "The people in prison." The rationalizations and denials defining refusal of ego-death get more, not less elaborate, among the well-situated, I find.
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Go to Jail The outcast, the poor. the little ones always come before the Church and before each one of us holding a gift. It's the gift of those things we hate: insecurity. disability, a not-so-smart mind, a sexual problem or addiction. We shun anyone who isn't like us, who hasn't succeeded in our system—like people in jail. We need the corporal works of mercy. Go to jail, we are told. Why? We thought to help others or to be a “good” Christian, but those aren't the reasons. We need to go to jail to get converted ourselves. We must go to the edges and discover what the questions really are, what true success is, and we must face our own failure. I was able to live with my illusions as long as I stayed out of the jail. I mistakenly thought prisoners were the bad people. Richard Rohr
@HumansSQ 1/ As it happens, the training and illumination of a skillset honed through years of practiced refinement in the alembic of San Quentin, proved essential to my awakening to community-based restorative justice as fundamental to functional, ‘world resurrection.' Sages abound there.
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