Readings week of February 23th.

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses

*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*

Monday, February 23rd

Reading: “Every seeker of Ultimate Mystery has to pass through interior death and rebirth, perhaps many times over.  Our contemporary world desperately needs persons of boundless generosity who dedicate themselves to great ideals and who wish to transform themselves and contribute to the transformation of the world.  A great vision is what gives ordinary daily life its direction and invests it with purpose.

Seekers of Ultimate Mystery have to share in the agony of our time.  Only trust can make this experience transforming for themselves and for others.  As the sense of alienation from Ultimate Mystery, from human values, and from oneself is very deep in our time, so also participation in that experience is bound to be very deep.  It may involve an inner poverty so intense and so complete that no word can describe it, except “death.”  But this spiritual death leads to an inner resurrection of one’s true self that can move not only oneself, but the whole human family in the direction of transformation.  From this perspective, the spiritual journey is the very reverse of selfishness. It is rather the journey to selflessness.”

— Fr. Thomas Keating in Contemplative Outreach newsletter, June 2010 

Chant: Deep Trust

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