// “The conversion that we need must truly reach into the depths of our relationship with reality,” Benedict taugh. “Let us ask the Lord that we may become vigilant for his presence, that we may hear how softly yet insistently he knocks at the door of our being and willing. Let us ask that we may make room for him within ourselves, that …
// “The conversion that we need must truly reach into the depths of our relationship with reality,” Benedict taugh. “Let us ask the Lord that we may become vigilant for his presence, that we may hear how softly yet insistently he knocks at the door of our being and willing. Let us ask that we may make room for him within ourselves, that we may recognize him also in those through whom he speaks to us: children, the suffering, the abandoned, those who are excluded and the poor of this world.”
I hope I’ll open the door. I hope that you will too. //
I am very much afraid that we have got into the habit of doing all this in groups, and not as individual human beings. The modern world is so much with us, in its unending and unescapable noise and blather, that we are losing the ability to think - and to feel - outside herds. One frequent critique of modernity is that we are becoming atomized, unable to find and cherish an abiding sense of community. I think it's rather that we are being torn away from old groups in order that we can more easily be pushed into new groups, which themselves are constantly dissolving. Groupthink churn rules, even and perhaps especially in religion. We *can* resist this, but perhaps we are losing any desire to.
// “The conversion that we need must truly reach into the depths of our relationship with reality,” Benedict taugh. “Let us ask the Lord that we may become vigilant for his presence, that we may hear how softly yet insistently he knocks at the door of our being and willing. Let us ask that we may make room for him within ourselves, that we may recognize him also in those through whom he speaks to us: children, the suffering, the abandoned, those who are excluded and the poor of this world.”
I hope I’ll open the door. I hope that you will too. //
I am very much afraid that we have got into the habit of doing all this in groups, and not as individual human beings. The modern world is so much with us, in its unending and unescapable noise and blather, that we are losing the ability to think - and to feel - outside herds. One frequent critique of modernity is that we are becoming atomized, unable to find and cherish an abiding sense of community. I think it's rather that we are being torn away from old groups in order that we can more easily be pushed into new groups, which themselves are constantly dissolving. Groupthink churn rules, even and perhaps especially in religion. We *can* resist this, but perhaps we are losing any desire to.