I love you

Humility and honesty are really the same thing.

A humble person is simply someone who is naturally honest about their own truth.

You and I came along a few years ago;

we’re going to be gone in a few more years.

The only honest response to such a mystery is humility.

Being so certain that “I know” won’t get you anywhere, spiritually speaking.

The truth is, “I don’t really know anything!”

Our real heroes might be those who know they don’t know,

like Forrest Gump!

Perhaps Gump is a metaphor for what we call beginner’s mind.

Only such non-knowing is spacious enough to hold and not distort wisdom.

...meaning is not created; it is discovered.

There is nothing new under the sun in terms of the soul.

Our universe is an enchanted one.

The twentieth century added nothing to the wisdom of the soul.

It was all there already.

It is still all there.

You’re not going to be appreciably better than your grandma

(or some pre-modern ancestor), even with all your education;

in fact, I hope you’re as free as she was when you die.

I hope you can say “I love you” as she did when you die.

The great patterns are always the same:

either fear or love, illusion or love.

Healthy religion is always about love.

All we can do is get out of the way.  

~R. Rohr