Winter Blue
As we have seen, the human paradox flares up in a sudden flash of self understanding "at the still point"of Peak Experience. It happens. No effort we could make would earn for us this experience. It is gratis: gratia gratis data-a gift always...
...This is what asceticism is: goal directed, systematic training. And the goal is to discover, again and again, "the still point."
...For detachment is not a withdrawal from love, but an expansion of love beyond desire. Desire is entangled in time, nostalgic for the past, preoccupied with the future. Love expanding desire is "liberation from the future and the past." What remains is the now "where past and future are gathered, "the still point."
-A Listening Heart-The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness,
Brother David Steindl-Rast, pg. 101-102
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Winter Blue
As we have seen, the human paradox flares up in a sudden flash of self understanding "at the still point"of Peak Experience. It happens. No effort we could make would earn for us this experience. It is gratis: gratia gratis data-a gift always...
...This is what asceticism is: goal directed, systematic training. And the goal is to discover, again and again, "the still point."
...For detachment is not a withdrawal from love, but an expansion of love beyond desire. Desire is entangled in time, nostalgic for the past, preoccupied with the future. Love expanding desire is "liberation from the future and the past." What remains is the now "where past and future are gathered, "the still point."
-A Listening Heart-The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness,
Brother David Steindl-Rast, pg. 101-102
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