Source: Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“We have to look beyond the politicians to see a different future.”
The Liberals' Mistake (1987)
Context: All of us are responding to the fact there is no system that can keep any promises. Everybody is fighting each other under the illusion that it is the "other people" that are causing the problem. We don't realize that we are all in the same boat. We are all suffering from the absence of a system that can pull us together and assure us that the results of each person's work will come back to him and enhance his life in some way.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans today offer any vision of how we can overcome our present difficulties and build a more satisfying life. Both offer merely palliatives and, at best, a holding pattern. We have to look beyond the politicians to see a different future.
Lord, Increase Our Faith, Ensign, Nov. 1987, 52–53.
“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
Source: Pattern Recognition
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
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