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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 633651" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>More good thinking from RR...Underlines and boyfriend are mine...RR talks again about the first half of life---we are "doing and becoming"---here he talks about lots of action. And then the second half of life---we learn who we really are, and how to "be"...the period of contemplation. And then he talks about how we must grow and I think that is what many, many of us on this site are trying to do---to become who our Higher Power really intended for us to be. Hard hard stuff to live and to do and to even think about. But it feels very true to me and relevant on this board and on this journey.</p><p></p><p>*****************</p><p></p><p>The Evolving Journey</p><p></p><p>The Dance of Action and Contemplation</p><p>Thursday, August 28, 2014</p><p></p><p>I believe that the <u>combination of human action from a contemplative center is the greatest art form</u>. It underlies all those other, more visible art forms that we see in great sculpture, music, writing, painting, and <u>most especially, in the art form of human character development.</u> When the external life and the inner life are working together, we always have beauty, symmetry, and actual transformation of persons—lives and actions that inherently sparkle and heal, in part because they can integrate the negativity of failure, sin, and rejection and they can spot their own shadow games.</p><p></p><p>With most humans, the process begins on the action side; in fact, the entire first half of life for most of us, even introverts, is all about external action. We begin with crawling, walking, playing, speaking. We learn, we experiment, we try, we stumble, we fall. Gradually these enactments grow larger and more “mature,” but we remain largely unaware of our inner and actual motivations or purpose for any of it.</p><p></p><p>Yes, there are feelings and imaginings during this time, maybe even sustained study, prayer, or disciplined thought, but do not yet call that contemplation. These reflections are necessarily and almost always self-referential, both for good and ill. At this point, life is still largely about “me” and finding my own preferred and proper viewing platform. It has to be.<u> But it is not yet the great art form of the calm union between our inner and outer lives. We must go further.</u></p><p></p><p><strong><u>You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know—and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.</u></strong></p><p></p><p>Adapted from</p><p>Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer,</p><p>pp. 1, 2, 4</p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>Show me your ways; teach me your paths.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 633651, member: 17542"] More good thinking from RR...Underlines and boyfriend are mine...RR talks again about the first half of life---we are "doing and becoming"---here he talks about lots of action. And then the second half of life---we learn who we really are, and how to "be"...the period of contemplation. And then he talks about how we must grow and I think that is what many, many of us on this site are trying to do---to become who our Higher Power really intended for us to be. Hard hard stuff to live and to do and to even think about. But it feels very true to me and relevant on this board and on this journey. ***************** The Evolving Journey The Dance of Action and Contemplation Thursday, August 28, 2014 I believe that the [U]combination of human action from a contemplative center is the greatest art form[/U]. It underlies all those other, more visible art forms that we see in great sculpture, music, writing, painting, and [U]most especially, in the art form of human character development.[/U] When the external life and the inner life are working together, we always have beauty, symmetry, and actual transformation of persons—lives and actions that inherently sparkle and heal, in part because they can integrate the negativity of failure, sin, and rejection and they can spot their own shadow games. With most humans, the process begins on the action side; in fact, the entire first half of life for most of us, even introverts, is all about external action. We begin with crawling, walking, playing, speaking. We learn, we experiment, we try, we stumble, we fall. Gradually these enactments grow larger and more “mature,” but we remain largely unaware of our inner and actual motivations or purpose for any of it. Yes, there are feelings and imaginings during this time, maybe even sustained study, prayer, or disciplined thought, but do not yet call that contemplation. These reflections are necessarily and almost always self-referential, both for good and ill. At this point, life is still largely about “me” and finding my own preferred and proper viewing platform. It has to be.[U] But it is not yet the great art form of the calm union between our inner and outer lives. We must go further.[/U] [B][U]You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know—and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.[/U][/B] Adapted from Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer, pp. 1, 2, 4 Gateway to Silence: Show me your ways; teach me your paths. [/QUOTE]
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