We Are In The Cosmos

I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness In All Of Us!

We All Share Beauty. It Strikes Us Indiscriminately. There Is No End To The Beauty For The Person Who Is Aware. Even The Cracks Between The Sidewalk Contain Geometric Patterns Of Amazing Beauty. If We Take Pictures Of Them And Blow Up The Photographs, We Realize We Walk On Beauty Every Day, Even When Things Seem Ugly Around Us.

Faith Takes Us To Deep Places, To The Ruptures In Our Self-confidence And Our Lives. Do Not Settle For Spiritual Comfort All The Time...darkness Is Divine Also. Faith Is Not About Positive Thinking So Much As About What Kicks In When We Are Weak, Sick, And Short Of Self-confidence. The Via Positiva Never Stands Alone. The Via Negativa Is Always With Us On Our Faith Journey As Well.

A Civilization Built On Dualism And War Within And Between Persons, One That Puts Its Most Creative Minds And Its Best Engineers To Sadistic Work Building More And More Destructive Weapons, Is No Civilization At All. It Needs A Radical Transformation From The Heart Outwards. It Needs To Outgrow And Outlaw War Just As In The Last Century It Outlawed Slavery. The Human Race Has Outgrown War, But It Hardly Knows It Yet.

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.