These must be some lesser-known apocrypha, I guess.

"I beg to urge you everyone:
life and death is a grave matter;
all things pass quickly away.
Each of you must be completely alert;
never neglectful, never indulgent."

"social media, that little narcissism machine, the easiest way we have ever had to place ourselves on a pedestal of vanity, propagandise ourselves, is also the mechanism that most efficiently breaks you up" - Peter Pomerantsev

... 'Obediently' ... is the refusal to grasp or claim our prejudices, an attempt at possession that gives us an illusory sense of our own omnipotence and creates interior noise that impedes listening"

... 'Attentively' means not only listening but listening at a level of receptive responsiveness, allowing the words of the other to reach deeply into our hearts so that we may behold, however obliquely, the vast mystery towards which they gesture... 👇👇👇

... 'Faithfully' means releasing our tightly held prejudices and opinions concerning the way the world should work ... Faith is the acknowledgment that there is a larger vision than we can ask or imagine, and the willingness to be taken into it ... 👇👇👇

"'How we work out, faithfully, attentively, obediently, what we need to do and say...' [by Rowan Williams] - this is an instruction in learning discretion... 👇👇👇

"In every age, religious demagogues - and, in ours, atheistic ones as well - are quick to censure people and situations they not only do not understand but also refuse to understand. This deliberate closing of the mind is not only culpable; it exposes bitter, narrow hearts that lust for power."

... Silence is not in itself religious, but to express the ineffable joys found in its depths is almost impossible without metaphors that frequently sound religious"

"Silence is context and end, beholding the means. In the final analysis, this is all we need to know.
This silence i not the absense of noise; it is the vast interior landscape that invites us to stillness. At its heart, in our heart, it is the Other... 👇👇👇

"I look towards silence.
It is not, as I had heard,

a peak with natural footholds and the crampons left by better climbers

Contrary to what they say there is no map (they may be speaking of another place)

there is only surrender."

"Inside Out" by Pauline Matarasso

The myth number 3: It has an aim... 😉

"Tan-Zan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away.

The cards read:

I am departing from this world.
This is my last announcement.

Tan-Zan.

July 27, 1892."

... 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

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

"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

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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"