[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: We Are What We See
Catherine Walther
catherine.walther at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 07:06:03 PST 2023
I think this part of Richard Rohr’s daily reflection is particularly
poignant.
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Subject: Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: We Are What We See
To: Catherine Walther <catherine.walther at gmail.com>
We are usually blocked against being awestruck.
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Monday, December 4, 2023
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
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Week Forty-Nine: Awe and Amazement
Here is the mistake we all make in our encounters with reality—both good
and bad. We do not realize that it wasn’t the person or event right in
front of us that made us angry or fearful—or excited and energized. At
best, that is only partly true. If we had allowed a beautiful hot air
balloon in the sky to make us happy, it was because *we* were already
predisposed to happiness. The hot air balloon just occasioned it—and almost
anything else would have done the same. *How* we see will largely
determine *what
*we see and whether it can give us joy or make us pull back with an
emotionally stingy and resistant response. Without denying an objective
outer reality, *what we are able to see and are predisposed to see in the
outer world is a mirror* *reflection of our own inner world and state of
consciousness at that time.* Most of the time, we just do not see at all,
but rather operate on cruise control.
It seems that we humans are two-way mirrors, reflecting both inner and
outer worlds. We project ourselves onto outer things and these very things
also reflect back to us *our own unfolding identity*. Mirroring is the way
that contemplatives see, subject to subject rather than subject to object.
Adapted from Richard Rohr, *Just This*
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Publishing, 2017), 9–10, 12–13.
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*When we are in awe, there are no deeds to be done or words to be said; a
simple, ecstatic surrender.*
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