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Only the great self, the True Self, the God Self, can carry our anxieties. The little self cannot do it. People who don’t pray basically cannot live the Gospel, because the self is not strong enough to contain and reveal our delusions and our fear. I am most quoted for this line: “If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.”
Always someone else has to suffer because I don’t know how to suffer; that is what it comes down to. Jesus, you could say, came to show us how to suffer, how to carry “the legitimate pain of being human,” as C.G. Jung called it. Beware of running from yourself and your own legitimate suffering, which is the price of being a human being in a limited world.
Adapted from A Lever and a Place to Stand:
The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer (CD)
The Daily Meditations for 2013 are now available
in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .
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“The spiritual gift of discernment is when seemingly good things can be recognized as sometimes bad things, and seemingly bad things can also be seen to bear some good fruit…. It invites people into what I call ‘Yes/And’ thinking, rather than simplistic either/or thinking.”
— Richard Rohr,
Yes, And: Daily Meditations
Join Fr. Richard for a teaching on Sic et Non,
the ancient practice of “Yes and No.”
Live Webcast
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. (MDT)
Register today and get a signed copy of the book at cac.org.
Note that the webcast will be available for replay for 90 days after the live event;
pre-registration required by Monday, August 5, 2013.
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