It's a process...

True transformation

means your motivation foundationally changes

from security, status, and sabotage

to generosity, humility, and cooperation.

 

The work of contemplation is

"guarding your mind and your heart"

(Philippians 4:7)

so that a Larger Presence can show itself.

 

The Christian way

is to risk the attachments of love--

and then keep growing in

what it actually means

to love.

 

The contemplative mind

gives you access to your birthright,

to what is already within you.

Spiritual cognition is

recognition.

 

Change of itself just happens;

but spiritual transformation must become

an actual process of letting go,

living in the confusing dark space for a while,

and allowing yourself to be spit up

on a new and unexpected shore.

 

The deep mystery of transformation

is that God even uses our shame and pain

to lead us closer

to God's loving heart.

~R. Rohr