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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 <em>we</em> were already predisposed to happiness. The hot air balloon just occasioned it—and almost anything else would have done the same. <em>How</em> we see will largely determine <em>what </em>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, <em>what we are able to see and are predisposed to see in the outer world is a mirror</em> <em>reflection of our own inner world and state of consciousness at that time.</em> Most of the time, we just
do not see at all, but rather operate on cruise control.</p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px">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 <em>our own unfolding identity</em>. Mirroring is the way that contemplatives see, subject to subject rather than subject to object.</p>
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<p class="m_4557386274781667095size-14" style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14">Adapted from Richard Rohr, <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#9c5e3c" href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-vhkyhht-tlkrtkhhuj-y/" target="_blank"><em><u>Just This</u></em></a><u> </u>(Albuquerque, NM: CAC Publishing, 2017), 9–10, 12–13.</p><p class="m_4557386274781667095size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="text-decoration:inherit;color:#4a4a4a"><strong>Image credit: </strong></span>A path from one week to the next—Madison Frambes, <em>Untitled 4, 1, and 7</em> (detail), 2023, naturally dyed paper and ink, Mexico, used with permission. <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#9c5e3c" href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-vhkyhht-tlkrtkhhuj-j/" target="_blank">Click here to enlarge image</a>.</p><p class="m_4557386274781667095size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><em>When we are in awe, there are no deeds to be done or words to be said; a simple, ecstatic surrender.</em></p>
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