Quote from Bishop Kallistos Ware

11-09-25

In the Greek Christian tradition, the person is often described as being at the center of creation, at the crossroads.  The human person is seen as a microcosm reflecting the whole creation, both material and spiritual.  In this way, the human person is the bond of creation, the bridge - the marriage song of creation.  The human person is called to be the mediator. We are called to unite.  We are called to take material things and make them spiritual.  Though they remain material, we raise them to a higher level.  And because each of us in made in the Image of God, it is the task of each of us to be the priest of creation, to take the creation and to offer it back to God. - Bishop Kallistos Ware, “Image and Likeness” 

TALK ABOUT IT: The Human Vocation

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DO IT (INNER WORK): Re-imagining Yourself

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DO IT (OUTER WORK): Offering Creation

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Quote from Philip Newell

Christ is the memory of what we have forgotten.  He remembers the dance of the universe and the harmony that is deep within all things.  He is the memory also of who we are.  He shows us not a foreign truth but a truth that is hidden in the depths of the human soul.  He comes to wake us up, to call us back to ourselves and to the relationship that is deep within all things. The emphasis is not on becoming something other than ourselves but on becoming truly ourselves.  Christ discloses to us the sacred root of our being and of all being. ~ Philip Newell, “Christ of the Celts”

TALK ABOUT IT: What is Spiritual Amnesia?

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DO IT (INNER WORK): Bearing the Sacred

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DO IT (OUTER WORK): Serving the Sacred

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Quote from Richard Rohr

The ability to stand back and calmly observe our inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing.  It is the primary form of “dying to the self” that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially.  The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.  They are the ones we call sages or wise women or holy men.  They see like the mystics see. 

Now do not let the word “mystic” scare you.  It simply means one who has moved from mere belief systems or belonging systems to actual inner experience.  All spiritual traditions agree that such a movement is possible, desirable, and available to everyone.  In fact, Jesus seems to say that this is the whole point!  (See, for example, John 10:19-38.) ~  From The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, pp.30, 32-33

TALK ABOUT IT: What is mysticism? 

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DO IT (INNER WORK): Dying to self

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DO IT (OUTER WORK): Becoming sages

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