Left to my own imagination, I could never have composed a scenario that was anywhere as interesting as my life has been starting out as an eager altar boy, a good Boy Scout, a relatively docile Dominican brother and priest, receiving an advanced degree in spirituality, teaching bishops and many others around the world about our Western spiritual tradition, and then ending up being expelled from the Dominican order.
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To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.Matthew Fox
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.
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Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.
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I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
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We've been 40 days on this island dealing with very intense things and not a lot of room for romance. Anytime people are in extreme circumstances, there has to be moments where people need physical contact and a feeling of being safe.
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