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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 631214" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Ah....this is a really good one. On Letting Go. (underlines are mine below). I believe this the whole point of the suffering humankind endures. To teach us to let go and turn to our Higher Power for sustenance and strength. </p><p></p><p>Today in Al-Anon someone shared about the fact that through Al-Anon she is learning to "want what she has" instead of trying to "figure out what she wants." </p><p></p><p>I like this a lot. </p><p></p><p>Also someone else said today: Nothing is impossible if you're not the one doing it. </p><p></p><p>I have been thinking on that today, and it gives me greater insight into other people, and how we all struggle, and how judging other people is not something I want to do, even though I do it. I want to have more compassion and I want to be free of judging. </p><p></p><p>It was a great Al-Anon meeting this morning. Even the silences were full of meaning and richness. What a gift. </p><p></p><p>***************************************************</p><p></p><p>Letting Go</p><p></p><p>The Spirituality of Subtraction</p><p>Sunday, July 20, 2014</p><p></p><p>Meister Eckhart said, “The spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.” <u>All great spirituality is about letting go.</u> But we have grown up with a capitalist worldview, and it has blinded our spiritual seeing. We tend to think at almost every level that more is better, even though, as E. F. Schumacher said years ago, “less is more.”</p><p></p><p>There is an alternative worldview. There is a worldview in which all of us can succeed. It isn’t a win/lose capitalist worldview where only a few win and most lose. <u>It’s a win/win worldview—if we’re willing to let go and if we’re willing to recognize that this, right here, right now, is enough. This is all I need.</u> But that can only be true if we move to the level of being and away from the levels of doing and acquiring.</p><p></p><p>True religion is always pointing us toward being. At that level we experience enoughness, abundance, more than enoughness. If we’ve never been introduced to that world, we will of course try to satisfy ourselves with possessions, accomplishments, important initials after our names, fancy cars, beautiful homes—none of which are bad in themselves. They’re only unable to satisfy; and that’s exactly why we need more and more of them. As the Twelve-Steppers say, “We need more and more of what does not work.” If it worked, we would not need more of it!</p><p></p><p>Adapted from The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis,</p><p>disc 1 (CD)</p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>Let go and let God.</p><p>“To pray and actually mean ‘thy Kingdom come,’ we must also be able to say ‘my kingdoms go.’ Francis and Clare’s first citizenship was always and in every case elsewhere, which ironically allowed them to live in the world with joy, detachment, and freedom.” — Richard Rohr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 631214, member: 17542"] Ah....this is a really good one. On Letting Go. (underlines are mine below). I believe this the whole point of the suffering humankind endures. To teach us to let go and turn to our Higher Power for sustenance and strength. Today in Al-Anon someone shared about the fact that through Al-Anon she is learning to "want what she has" instead of trying to "figure out what she wants." I like this a lot. Also someone else said today: Nothing is impossible if you're not the one doing it. I have been thinking on that today, and it gives me greater insight into other people, and how we all struggle, and how judging other people is not something I want to do, even though I do it. I want to have more compassion and I want to be free of judging. It was a great Al-Anon meeting this morning. Even the silences were full of meaning and richness. What a gift. *************************************************** Letting Go The Spirituality of Subtraction Sunday, July 20, 2014 Meister Eckhart said, “The spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.” [U]All great spirituality is about letting go.[/U] But we have grown up with a capitalist worldview, and it has blinded our spiritual seeing. We tend to think at almost every level that more is better, even though, as E. F. Schumacher said years ago, “less is more.” There is an alternative worldview. There is a worldview in which all of us can succeed. It isn’t a win/lose capitalist worldview where only a few win and most lose. [U]It’s a win/win worldview—if we’re willing to let go and if we’re willing to recognize that this, right here, right now, is enough. This is all I need.[/U] But that can only be true if we move to the level of being and away from the levels of doing and acquiring. True religion is always pointing us toward being. At that level we experience enoughness, abundance, more than enoughness. If we’ve never been introduced to that world, we will of course try to satisfy ourselves with possessions, accomplishments, important initials after our names, fancy cars, beautiful homes—none of which are bad in themselves. They’re only unable to satisfy; and that’s exactly why we need more and more of them. As the Twelve-Steppers say, “We need more and more of what does not work.” If it worked, we would not need more of it! Adapted from The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis, disc 1 (CD) Gateway to Silence: Let go and let God. “To pray and actually mean ‘thy Kingdom come,’ we must also be able to say ‘my kingdoms go.’ Francis and Clare’s first citizenship was always and in every case elsewhere, which ironically allowed them to live in the world with joy, detachment, and freedom.” — Richard Rohr [/QUOTE]
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