Konrad Banicki

... throwing yourself into the will of God, or into acceptance of the causal factors of the universe. It is giving up tantrums." Marsha Linehan on Gerald May's willingness

... and even some you could win. It is letting go of being right, even when you are right. It is when you do things you might not want to do, but you do them because they are needed. With willingness, you accept with grace what is happening. You could say it is... 👇👇👇

"Willingness is about opening yourself to what is. It is about becoming one with the universe, participating in it, doing what is needed in the moment. It is doing the dishes when needed, helping someone up who has fallen, letting go of battles you will never win... 👇👇👇

"Only silence is deep enough to hold everything" - Siter Florence Leone Poch, OSF (1929-2024)

(as quoted by Marsha Linehan)

... metaphors that frequently sound religious"

"silence is not the absence of noise; it is the vast interior landscape that invites us to stillness. At its heart, in our heart, it is the Other. Silence is not in itself religious, but to express the ineffable joys found in its depths is almost impossible without... 👇👇👇

"Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness ... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words" - Rainer Maria Rilke

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO The Webb Sisters - If It Be Your Will (Official Live in London 2008)

"Let your mercy spill
On all these burning hearts in hell
If it be your will
To make us well"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Xc...

... non-stealing is the obvious precept to be expressed in certain particular circumstances, if one finds oneself in a Robin Hood-type of particular circumstance, it could be stealing that is appropriately expressed"

Zen Buddhism on the Aristotelian phronesis: "In this ever-changing, dynamic reality in which we live our lives, circumstances are different from moment to moment. This, of course, determines whether, for example, non-stealing or non-lying is called for. And although... 👇👇

... 'Marsha, if you enter a convent, the only serious question to be asked will be "Will they kick you out first, or will you walk out first?" because you’ll never make it in a convent.' Anselm was likely right. I was not cut out to be a nun."

"I have Anselm to thank for a second piece of advice, too. It was more of a statement. I had contemplated becoming a nun, which is not so very surprising for a Catholic girl. Mother would have been ecstatic; she often urged me to go down that path. When I told Anselm this, he said... 👇👇👇

"Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages. Guard the image of man for it is the image of God." - Thomas Merton

The registration is still open for an Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS) talk by Lisa Osbeck. Please feel invited to register and participate!

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From the archives: Shusaku Endo discusses faith with his Jesuit translator Endo, the recipient of America’s Campion Award in 1990, spoke with William Johnston, S.J.

www.americamagazine.org/from-our-arc...

#endo #silence #scorsese

Source: @americamag.bsky.social

...as soon as it begins to expose this wound; they move on instead to some spiritual entertainment that will maintain distraction"

"The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual path before we get some sense of the wound of the human condition, and this is precisely why not a few abandon a contemplative practice like meditation... 👇👇👇

... He probably thought he was being honest, and, given my history, he had a point. But he didn’t know me, or my determination. This dynamic became something of a pattern in my life: people telling me what I couldn’t do, and me thinking, 'You just wait and see. I’ll show you.'"

Marsha Linehan's 'hold my beer' moment:

"I should not have been surprised at my father’s response. Almost before I had finished describing my plan, to move and find a job to support myself, he said sharply, 'You won’t be able to get a job in Chicago.' 👇👇👇

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"hunting for so-called ‘religious experiences’ is not only futile, it is a form of hubris" - Maggie Ross (Martha Reeves)

Source: postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/s...

... in this book are about love that is revealed in the most unexpected places."

... experiences ... Having said that, it is also true that memory distills: sometimes what we are permitted to recall reveals more truth than a simple listing of so-called facts, or efforts to be 'objective.' And it is on this unconscious discernment I have tended to rely, for the stories in... 👇

"All the same, I hesitate to say this book is nonfiction. Indeed, I begin to wonder if we rightly label any book nonfiction, because perception and memory, the filters of dying and living, pain and joy, hurting and healing, all conspire to make liars out of those rash enough to write about their...👇

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. - John 1.5

"active acceptance requires careful observation, openness to experience & tolerance to all that life presents. Acceptance is the developed capacity to fully embrace whatever is in the present moment. It requires a spacious mind, an open heart & strength to bear one's experience"

"If any man cannot grasp this matter, let him be idle and the matter will grasp him" Henry Suso

... commodification—is indeed a subversive act."

"The choice for silence or noise, for carefulness or carelessness, is ours in every moment. To choose silence as the mind’s default in an accelerating consumer culture—a culture that sustains itself by dehumanizing people through the unrelenting pressure of clamor, confusion, & 👇